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16 - crossed out 32 Also when the soldiers were in pursuit of a few distressed and afflicted Creeks at Red Clay, they wantonly shot a poor man dead on the spot. The soldiers pretend that the Creek was attempting to shoot them with an arrow, but this is vain, because, if I am rightly informed, the ball entered the mans back, and ranged toward his head, showing clearly that his back was towards the man who shot him, and that he was also in a stooping position.

Last night about twenty Cherokees returned from the company of eleven hundred, who were last started from Ross landing. This company are to walk as far as Waterloo, and there be thrust into boats. These Cherokees say that as the company lay on the bank, a certain woman, being sick and unable to sit up, lay on the ground, and that as the company were about starting, a soldier went up to her, and kicking her in the side, drove her thus into the boat; and that after landing, she was seen a few minutes, but was soon missing, and they suppose died. It is said that many old women, driven in this company, cried like children, when they started, saying, they never could walk such a journey this smudge season of the year.

June 29th. This evening the grandmother of the little boy with us called to spend the night. She says that when the soldiers ordered br. Epenetus to march with his family, he told them that his little boy was behind with us, and therefore he desired to wait till he could get him, or to that