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Creek Agency 22d March 1818 Sir, I had the honor to receive by last mail a letter from the Secretary of War enclosing an extract of a letter which you had written to him from Hartford on the 14th of last month, containing numerous charges implicating my official conduct as agent of Indian Affairs for the Creek Nation. That the sources from whence you derived your information were such as to induce you to believe that the circumstances stated were true, and that the motives for my conduct were such as are insinuated I have no doubt, and that you will, when assured of their utter falsehood be as ready to do justice to the accused as you were to exhibit the charges under that belief I have as little doubt. That african negroes were brought to this place in the course of the winter is true, but that they were either purchased or brought here with my knowledge is not true; or that any negroes of that description were brought here at any time, or taken from hence with my knowledge other than those