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State of Tennessee

To the Sherriff of Hawkins County Sir

I am just ^now informed by an express
from the Governor of the state of Kentucky, that a
Most Cruel daring and unprovoked Murder was perpetr-
ated by Edward Mitchel and John Levingston, Citizens
of this State and inhabitants of Hawkins county, on two
indians of the Cherokee Nation (one of the name of
red Bird) who was hunting in the State of Kentucky,
On the Waters of Kentucky river.

The perpetration of so ^such a horrid and unwarantable
Ac an Act is contrary to the treaties existing between
the United States and the indian tribes, as also
All laws human and divine, and such aggressions
Ought to meet examplary and adequate punishment
According ^suitable to the demerit of the ^their crimes, agreably [sic] to the laws