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Knoxville 25 February 1800

Gentlemen

Since my last I have learned that Bowles
is gaining influance over the Creek tribes
and his conduct becoming more & more menacing
towards this State I say this State because it is so
much more subject and liable to the depredations
of those Southern Nations then any of the other
States. Georgia not excepted - It is to be
recollected that we have in the past Indian
Ward, suffered much more (at least ten to one)
Then any other State -

I pray you to make every exertion
in order to have our frontiers as formidably
protected as possible and by all the Means in your
power and [illegible] to have the Military Strength in this State
Augmented at least double the present
numbers - of which would scarcely affoard
a protection sufficient shouls hostilities be commenced
and in case there should not, the troops could readily
be removed after discovering there was no danger
to be apprehended. -

I have the honor &c

The Honble
Wm Cocke
Joseph Anderson
& Wm. C. Claiborne