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Post oak, black oak, pine & hickory, all small. The whole abounding in veins of reeds & reedy branches. They call this the winter reed, as it clusters as the cane. The villages are badly fenced, the Indians are attentive to their traders; & several of them are attentive to stock & have cattle & hogs & some few have horses. Four half breeds have fine stocks of cattle. Thomas has 130 cattle & 10 horses. Au,uil,un,gee? the wife of O,pi,o,chetus,tunnuagee? has 7 cattle. These? Indians promised the agent in 1799 to begin & fence their fields. They have 170 gunmen in the four villages. Robert Grierson the trader, a native of Scotland, has, by a steady conduct contributed to mend the manners of these people. He has five children, half breed, & governs them as Indians, and makes them & his whole family respect him & is the only man who does so in the Upper Creeks. He has 300 cattle & 30 horses. He has, on the recommendation of the agent for Indian affairs, set up a manufactory of cotton cloth. He plants the green seed cotton, it being too cold for the black seed. He has raised a quantity for market, but finds it more profitable to manufacture it; he has employed an active? girl of Georgia, Rachel Spillard?, who was in the Cherokee department, to superintend the department & allows her 200 $ per annum. He employs eleven hands, red & white & black, in spinning and weaving, and the other part of his family in raising & preparing the cotton for them. His wife, an Indian woman,