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98 white people on the sea coast, who drove them back to their present situations. [unclear name] & Chickasaw consider themselves as people of one fire (torch lit, can hum, go, ce) from the earliest account of their origin. [unclear name] appointed the first miceo for them, directed him to set down in the big Savanna where they now are & govern them. Some of the Chickasaws straggled off & settled near Augusta, from whence they returned & set down near [unclear name] & thence back to their nation. [name] & Chickasaw have remained friends ever since their first acquaintance. During the late war between the Creeks & Chickasaw, [name] refused her aid & retained her long established friendship for the Chickasaws; and when the Creeks offered to make peace, their offers were rejected till name interposed her good offices. These had the desired effect & produced peace.

[note in pencil] Copy made by Andrew D. Pickens, Jr. ends here (C.A.D.)