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Knoxville 2^d. August 1807

Sir,

you will perceive by the enclosed copy of a
letter, from Robert Koyl, that a certain John
Prigmore, has been lately murdered, by the Indians-

A certain Leonard Cash was also murdered last
Spring in the neighbourhood of Flint River, and
afterwards found in Tennessee, with his body riped [sic]
open and head cut off, with other mutilations of
and egregious nature-. I have been farther informed
(not official) that one other person has been murdered
near the Shoals, said to be done by the creeks. Such
enormities are of too aggravating a kind, and such
as will not be longer suffered, to be committed on
any of the citizens of Tennessee. I request you
will be good enough to make diligent enquiry in order
to discover the perpetrators that they may be dealt with
agreeably to existing Treaties, and the laws in such
cases made and provided. I am unwilling to be=
=lieve that the Cherokee chiefs would countenance such out=
rages, but should it be discovered to be otherwise, this
situation maybe soon become very disagreeable, unless they
finally put an end to such aggressions. I shall expect
that the Cherokees will make every necessary enquiry to dis=
=cover