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Written and to correct errors, if found in order that the same may be preserved as a memento of our Nation, for the satisfaction of posterity long after this generation shall have returned unto dust- Very sincerely

                                                     Your friends and Fellow Citizen- 

("Ja-ni" [in Cherokee syllabary], which is Cherokee for "John") Jno Ross ("Coweescoowee" [in Cherokee syllabary], which is John Ross's Cherokee name)

To All the Aged and Wise Antiquarians of the Cherokee Nation - .