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this date we shall be obliged to leave this Country without seeing you & to report your conduct to your father the President. We are your friends and the representatives of your father the president. Ja Wilkinson Benjamin Hawkins Comissn Capt near Cooste 1 Sept. 1801 -- The Commissioners of the US. have sent to your care a talk for the Chiefs about to assemble at Tellico and they request you strikeout to have it interpreted to them by Cary. You will find that the long way's plain and unclear and by no construction intended as a threat, we mention this to put the interpreter on his guard. You have enclosed also a short talk