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Knoxville 30th March 1797

Sir

I am induced to believe, that the Cheifs [sic] of the
Cherokee nation have possessed time sufficient
to fully ascertain by whom the late murders have
been committed on Several of the Citizens of the
State of Tennessee.

I demand that the Cheifs [sic] of the Cherokee
Nation apprehend, and bring to condign
punishment, those of their Nation, who have
been guilty of the perpetration, and shall
expect the leaders of the Nation will evince, a
disposition to Strictly and explicitly comply -
with the articles of the Subsisting treaty between
their nation and the United States. On the
part of this State, you will permit me to assure
you, that those white persons who have so flag
=rantly Violated, the laws of this and the United
States, by committing violences on any ^part of the Cherokee
Nation, shall not be suffered to escape with
impunity