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Creek agency 13 July 1808

your Excellencys favour of the 20 [?] was de-
-livered to me the 30^th ult in presence of Mr. Barnard an
interpreter by a young Creek returning from a meeting of
the Cherokees at [E,ton,woh?] where he said he recieved it with
directions to bring it to me. We had during the same time
heard of a murder commited on your frontiers by some of
people of the upper Creeks to retaliate a murder comited
some years before by a man of Tennessee.

During this spring we had a report among us
believed to be true, that some white people in a boat near
the mouth of Duckwood were fired on by a Banditte
of Indians consisting of 15 [old?] fugitives from five or six
towns of the Creek nation and that three men [were?] supposed
to be murdered - I immediately gave orders to enquire
into this affair, and in the event of its being true, to cause
justice to be done without delay. This enquiry was followed
by an order for a convention of the Chiefs of the upper towns
which took pace on the 7^th of this month.

On the 27 June I rec^d a letter from the sec^y
at War of the 30 may stating on your part as well
as of the principal officers of West Tennessee complaints
in general terms, the murder of several families of your
frontier settlers and a disposition for open hostilities
menaced or actually commited by the Creeks with
such orders to me as were justified by the occasion
on the receipt of this I dispatched the second head
man of the Lower Creeks with a demand for satis
-faction