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State of Tennessee, Knoxville, 13 April 1797

Benjamin Hawkins esquire & Andrew Pichin esquires

Gentlemen

It is with exreme pain I have to
inform you, that many of the Citizens of this
State is much alarmed on being informed
that a very large body of indians is about to be
Assembled on the Frontiers and such of this state

It must be recent in your memory memories that
several murders have lately been committed
on some of the Citizens of this State, by the Cherokees,
as well as a number of Robberies at various
times since last Autumn; It is also just to
Observe that two indians was Murdered by some
of the people of this State- It must naturally
and inevitably Occur that such Outrages of
such an inhuman nature is not easily and
soon forgoten eradicated from ^out of the minds of those
who have been injured, either by the loss of their
friends or property, and that retaliation is but
too