Letter : Augusta, [Ga.], to [Benjamin] Lincoln, Charles Town [i.e. Charleston, S.C.], 1780 Jan. 17.

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Letter : Augusta, [Ga.], to [Benjamin] Lincoln, Charles Town [i.e. Charleston, S.C.], 1780 Jan. 17.

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January 17, 1780, letter from Col. Richard Parker in Augusta, Ga., to Maj. Gen. Lincoln, who was in Charleston preparing for the impending attack of Sir Henry Clinton and the British fleet, reporting that Indians had arrived in Savannah "with an intention of distressing this country."

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