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S^o West Point 19^th August 1801

Sir

I have received your letter of the 15^th Instant enclosing
an address to the Chiefs & Warriors of the Cherokee Nation. A
Copy of y^r letter to me I have forwarded to the Secretary of War

The address to the Chiefs I have had
read & explained this morning to Double Head & the
Bloody fellow, the only Chiefs here - they express
themselves well pleased with your attention to the friends of
the deceased Woman - And for the exertions that you say
you are making to Discover the Murderer. They seem
Confident that you may succeed - They say that
the White people owe them three Debts of this Kind
& hope they will be paid - they allude to the murder of
two Indians at Cumberland & this of the woman, If a murder
of this kind in the Center of the State is not detected, it
will encrease their suspicions that the white people do not
exert themselves on the Occasion - They see that the
white people can effect almost any thing they please,
things beyond all calculation of them - therefore cannot see
why we cannot detect murderers &c. -

I am sir
with great respect
your Obedient Servant

Return: J: Meigs
A[gent]. for the Cherokees

Governor Sevier