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Vann was especially so: and at this crisis a new sense word scratched out of resentment word scratched out had arisen. Doublehead word scratched out had beaten his wife cruelly when she was with child; and the poor woman died in consequence. The revenge against murder now became in the Indian's conscience imperative. The wife of Double-head was the sister of the wife of Vann. Vann's wife desired unclear with her own hand to obtain atonement words lined out for her sister's death. Vann acquiesced; and he and a large party of friends set away with his wife upon this mission of blood. Alexander Sanders, Major Ridge and others were of the word scratched out number.

    On their way to the unclear, Vann was taken sick & his wife's word scratched out attention became word scratched out indispensable, they were induced to yield the honor of destroying Doublehead to Sanders word scratched out Ridge, word scratched out & others, who resolved to execute him without reference to the domestic quarrell, but simply as a Speculator upon the National Lands and word scratched out unclear no Friend to his Country.

    At the mouth of the  Hiwassee, Double-Head now arrived in a canoe. Ridge & his party were at McIntosh's unclear the Agency, awaiting his arrival. Three or four miles below McIntosh's Agency there was