Early Governors' Papers

Dellegates	Capts Company	Year	Nays
William Halliburton
John Davidson
George Mitchell	Capt Halliburton	65	0
Stirling Brewer	Capt Caldwell	11	5
Mathew Gilmore
Sterling May
Jeremiah Pearsell	Capt Gilmore	55	1
John Tubb
Abner Brown
James Walker	Capt Teal	44	3
Wm Stone
Wm Hudson
George Clerk	Capt Horner	25	0
Thos Batson
Molton Dickson
Abiram Caldwell	Capt Dickson	24	3
		310	17

On Motion Tho^s Batson, Cuthbert Hudson Sterling Brewer & John Read, be appointed to draw up a petition to H. E. the Governor, and forward the same Ordered that a Copoy of these proceeding be forwarded to the printers in Nashville

S: Brewer

Test John Read Clk

3 Springs June 2^nd 1816.

Dear Sir

From Reynoldsburgh M^r Dickson Esq^r & myself wrote you jointly and inclosed a plate of the road, that we have lately surveyed - When we arrived in the Nation the Cheifs were collecting in a grand counsel, principally occasi= =oned by a letter received from the Cheif of the Cherokee Nation inviting a deputation from the Chickasaw Choctaw Creek & Cherokee Nations to meet at turkey town on the 27^th Ult. (I believe was the time) in order to settle their boundaries &c - I attended as a spectator, the Agent Colo Cocke produced a letter from the secretary of War; making propositions for the purchase of the lands belonging to that Nation North of the Tennessee River; they appeared much dissatisfyd with that part of the letter that wished a purchase I think the proposition would have been better rec^d had they not been so much dissatisfyd with the line run by Gen^l Coffee dividing their lands from those of the Creeks obtained by Gen^l Jackson's treaty, In council they had two depositions read which the agent had obtained (I believe Perry and M^cGee) which as well as I recollect proves that the line ought to be run from a small creek above the Mussel shoals, to flat rock (o stone) thence to the head of Black Warrior and down that stream - The secretarys letter ^stating that if Gen^l Coffees line was not correct, it should be corrected appeared to give satisfaction - I applied individually to some of the Cheifs relative to the Saline on lands they appeared very averse to leaving or selling, saying