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Saugatuck
Mich
May 27th 1900

Mrs D. B Wawanosh

[of?] yours was recived [received]
the 22 [cnd?] [22nd?]

in your Reply bout [about?] what way
I am to do buisness [business?]
all I want you to do sign
the petition and if you have any
sisters and brothers all so [also]
let them sign not by every
body [everybody] now my children [cant?] [can't?] sign
those paper [papers] or my wife

if you let any out side [outside] party
sign those papers you shell [shall] [have? crossed-out]
be held responsible if rejected
at Washington every person sign
give one dollar and if you can find
the real heirs to this claim let them
sign children not alowed [allowed]

I want to do what right by you
or I would not have hunted you
up they told me not to have any thing [anything]
to do [any] [crossed out] with one living in Canada
maby [maybe?] you want to help those
Indians at [Athens?] if so let me know
at once cause they are after the same
property and those papers aughto [ought to]
ben [have been?] in Washington