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Four Mile Branch Monroe County Tennessee Dec 14th 1836
Dear Sir I recd your favor by Mr. Ross, and hoped, long ago, to have complied, as far as I was able, with your requests; but the vexations persecutions, waged against the Cherokees, have grown to such a pitch that no individual, in the country, however obscure, can escape suspicion, if he manifest the least degree of friendship for the poor Indians.