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5/ I know nothing of the order of emigration or to time, that obtained with the above name tribes; but with regard to the fifth, the Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks and Cherokees, we have evidence that it was the last. The traditions of these Indians as obtained by Colo. Hawkins, and of the Choctaws as obtained by W. Vose of Natchez, are quite satisfactory upon this point. The following letter from Genl. Goor you will regard as valuable in reference to the Southern Indians.

Hills April 2nd I835. Dear Sir, In the month of February 1810 I was detained by bad weather at the house of Colo. Benjamin Hawkins who was then and had been agent for the Creek Indians from the time of Genl. Washington's Presidency. In the cause of conversation he spoke of having been at considerable trouble in collecting from the most intelligent Indians of the four nations viz: Chickasaws, Choctaws, Cherokees and Creeks, the traditionary history of their people - which he had embodied in a manuscript, but wasito? not permit it to be published during his life. He died sometime in the spring of 1815, and his house (the agency) taking fire soon after, his papers were all consumed.

I will now give you as near as my memory