Early Governors' Papers

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