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State; You will have it in your power among the great number of ingenious macha =nics that are to be found in the City of Philadelphia, to have such a one made, as will be elegant comprehensive and sufficiently expressive of the purposes and use the fame is intended for.
I hope your attention will not be lacking, to ^Endeavor & to procure the monies the monies due the Officers and Privates for their services in the late expedition against the Cherokees under my command; I flatter myself that the present Secretary of the War office department, will consider the propriety ^& legality of the measure.
I have the honor to be with sincere and much Esteem, Your Mo Obt. & very H.l Serv.t
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Peace, that now so happily extends from our hearts to those of our red brothers.
Dont think harm when I say you are all only a handfull of people, and that war will ruin you if ever you enter into it again. look back thirty years ago, you was then a great people, more than ten times the number you have now, and if you had never went to war you would have been ten time stronger now, then you was at that time.
Brothers you know I have always advised you to live in peace, I pitied your women and children and Warriers ought always to take care of them, for they are harmless and innocent, and depend upon men for their safety and protection.
I shall always endeavour to keep the path of peace wide and straight between us and if ever war is again known in your land, it will not be our fault.
You Good and great friend Governor Blount is going to Philadelphia to sit in the great and beloved Council of America. Your beloved Father Washington the President is there, and so long as your Nation keeps bright the chain of peace, they will both be your friends.
Your friend and Brother /signed/ John Sevier
