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Colonel James Ore Knoxville 12^th May 1798-

You will proceed from this place into the Cherokee
Nation, you will there endeavour to gain information from the
Cheifs [sic] and others, their intentions with respect to the present intended
treaty- if they intend to dispose of any of their claims to land
or not, if they be devided [sic] or unanimous either in disposing or
refusing - If they mean selling what part of country -

You will effect to be disinterested on the occasion,
give no advice, except they request it, or the subject is intr=
=oduced by some of their own party, on that occasion
signify to them, that the hunting is much diminished
and is daily becoming more so, that in case, the United
States would engage to give them an annuity, in addit-
ion to the present one, that probably it might be much
to their advantage, as they would get more goods in that way, then
they could possibly make by hunting - their old and young
helpless people would be provided for, - It would also prev-
ent the young and foolish from going to war, for
that would forfeit, all their annuities - They claim
much land could sell a great deal & has a enough left.

They ought to learn to raise stocks, & make Crops
of grain, which is by far the most profitable way of living,
And the only sure way of living easy, well and becoming
Rich - Such is the manner in which all the
menachanical [sic] arts are supplied & Carried on -

Observe to them all those that follow hunting, is always
poor