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you execute the Same. - You will not consider this
application as arising from any doubt in me,
that your equipments or opperations are intended
to be inimical, to this, or the United States. I con=
=ceive it a duty I owe the public, and the State
over which I have the honor to preside, to become
acquainted with a circumstance, which appears
pregnant, with important consequences and events;
of which I hope you will have no objections.

I have the Honor &c

(signed)

John Sevier

Zachariah Cox esq^r}