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Sioto, very early in the Spring, in order to settle in their own Country! This part of his message I know to be true, by an extract of a letter from Govr. Blount, to the Secretary of War, in which he says "a considerable number of Cheokee warriors with their families, arrived on the 27th of May at the Tellico Block House that they had forever abandoned the Hostile tribes NW of the Ohio, determined to remain peaceable in future" All the mischief that has been done up the Ohio for some time past, was by the party of Shawanoes, mentioned in my letter to your Excellency, of the 28th of June in retalliation for the aggression of Mr Massey; This disagreeable business will now terminate, the Shawanoes Chiefs have Solemnly promised to call that party to a severe account, & the other Nations have also determined to assist in their total extermination shou'd they continue hostile Blue Jacket