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government, who were recruiting for emigrants found him there and promised if he would enrol & emigrate that they would return this place of the Moravians of which he was in possession as his private property and it should be valued and paid for accordingly. William Hicks was not proof against these repeated temptations. He did enrol. He then left his family at his own house, and travelled the country with the american agents, busying himself in getting up an Emigrant Party; and he even made divers trips to Georgia. In concert with Currey and John Ridge, also, (who though in the Committee & Council, did not shrink from giving his aid to these movements), he recommended the passage of laws by the Georgia Legislature bearing heavily upon such individuals in his own nation as it was thought expedient to harass & to crush. These laws were passed in 1832 or 1833. The Emigrant party being organised, they met at the agency in 1832. They there appointed William Hicks as their Principal Chief, [unclear] Intock as 2nd chief, and also formed a committee. They even went further and laid a plan for a party which was ultimately intended to supplant the existing