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It is very common for man to have children by several women of the like of women by several men, but the children of each inherited all alike. 7th The making of wills is of modern date. I know of no instance of the making of wills prior to the Seminole Campaign. On that occasion several of the half bloods, such as McIntosh Lovett & the Kinards made wills. Others may have done the like without my knowledge. I have often heard a great deal said by Colonel Hawkins & others about the introduction of certain reforms of the Laws & Customs of the Creeks & supposed, that many had been made before my Agency but when I accepted the Agency and made much enquiry [sic] of the Chiefs as to the alterations I had heard spoken of so often I found that nothing of the kind had been done, so as to make it obligatory on the Nation. I therefore set about the work myslef, and in 1819 or 1820 I do not recollect which I procured a revision of many of their Laws& Customs & amongst many others the Law of descent and had them reduced to writing, read and proclaimed at the public square, at a general meeting, and sent on to Washington for notification & confirmation by the President, and they were accordingly approved. I kept a copy for some time, but whether I have one at this time I am uncertain. I know I gave a copy yo McIntosh the year before he was killed with the view to have them printed. A copy could no doubt be procured from the war office. The reason they were not printed immediately on their being approved by the President, was that I contemplated a more general revision & alteration, of their Laws & Customs, & thought it better to defer the printing until the whole was complete. My removal from the Agency & the Murder of McIntosh put an end to that project as well as other which would