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Knoxville 20th March 1798

Gentlemen

Your joint letter of the 16th of February Ultimo is
now before me, and in which Ifind inclosed a copy copies of
a letter from the Tennessee Delegation to the president of
the United States. and also one to the Secretary of War,
And his Answer. The measures you have pursued, and
the communications you have transmitted for my own and
your fellow Citizens satisfaction, demonstrates, and
evinces to every impartial mind, the great and patriotic
past, as well ^and the feeling and sympathetic interest
you have uniformly taken ^discovered & taken in favor of our distressed
Frontier suffers; For which Gentlemen, permit me,
to offer you my earnest & warmest thanks. Ifurther
beg you to believe that Ihave, the fullest confidence
together with my fellow Citizens that no exertions of
yours will be lacking, in whatever may tend to promote
the interest, and welfare of the state, which you have
the honor to represent - The regular mode