Early Governors' Papers

Captain Arthur Crozier

Sir

You will please to t embody ten of your [choicest?] the most effective men of your Company, well equipt with Arms, And Ammunition, and provisions, and proceed to make immeadiate ^& diligent search after the Murderers of a certain Ballad, Coffey, and one other person whose name is unknown to me - You will take every necessary measure to have the perpetrators apprehended- And further I do authorize you to call on all off= =icers both Civil & military, to be [illegible] and assisting at your request, to grant you the every necessary support, for the appr ehension of the said Villians & Murderors [sic]

Given in Knoxville this 25th July 1799