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Knoxville 19th January 1798

Brothers

I am sorry to hear that some of our bad and incons=
iderate young men have done some mischeif [sic] to two
peaceable men of your nation; My heart is sorry
for this dark and evil deed, and the more ^so when I
consider the good and friendly intercourse that
have so long subsisted between us, and had earnestly hoped,
that no ^more blood on either side, would have again been
Spilled between us ^your people & ours - Brothers you may rest
assured, that if the murderors [sic] can be found out that
they shall be put to death ^suffer according to the treaty
subsisting between us; and that I will do everything
in my power to have them [illegible]