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South West Point 16^th august 1801

At the time, we do ourselves the pleasure,
to announce to your Excellency, our arrival here
as Commissioners of the United States, for the purpose
of holding a conference with the Cherokees, on
subjects interesting to our fellow citizens, we have to
lament and to regret a most wicked and barbarous
murder perpetrated on [?] creek in Knox county
on the body of our indian woman, who was with
a young child and a part of her family on the
path to Knoxville seeking a market for the pro
-ducts of her industry.

Your Excellency knows as well the effect
this will have on the mind of the Indians, as the
necessity there is of ^a speedy exertion of the competent
authority to bring with the least possible delay
the offender to justice and we must request
your interposition to produce that diserable
end.

The particulars of this transaction have not
reached us, or we would communicate them
to you. We are refered to Cap^t Flanagan near
Knoxville who is mentioned to us as an