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at the battery and handed me introductory letters to the President of the U. States, Secretary of War ? and one to his particular friend Mr Mercer a member of congress from Virginia.

"My dear Mercer,   When I say that I much interested for the Rev. Mr. Williams a young clergyman of Indian extraction, and that I think he has the desposition and the qualification most essentially to benefit unhappy countryman, and that on the persecution of this object he will will need counsellors & friends at Washington -   am confident I secure for