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the red chiefs are to live on presents from their white friends are so rooted, that he claims them as tributes due to him & such as must not be dispensed with. At the public establishment there is a smith's shop, a dwelling house & kitchen built of logs, & a field, well fenced: And it is in the contemplation of the agent to have a public garden & nursery.

The assistant and interpreter Mr Cornells (Oche Haujo) one of the Chiefs of the Creek Nation, has a farm well fenced & cultivated with the plough. He is a half breed, of a strong mind, and fulfills the duties enjoined on him by his appointment with zeal & fidelity. He has 9 negroes, under good government. Some of his family have good farms & one of them, Zachariah McGirt is a careful snug farmer, has good fences, a fine young orchard, and a stock of hogs, horses & cattle. His wife has the neatness & economy of a white woman. This family & Sullivans in the neighborhood are spinning.* 3. Aut-tosee? 
*Note. Jan.1.1801. Mr Cornells has a flock of sheep presented to him by the agent, of which he is very careful. His farm in in fine order; the fences well made & straight - his garden 150 feet square - well paled, laid off & planted with the variety usual in good gardens. He has a nursery of peach trees, & two bushels of peach stones to plant by order of the agent, for a public nursery. He is very attentive to all improvements suggested to him & has now prepared a field of two acres for cotton. He has a field of rye, which looks well, & is about to sow a field of oats. He retains his Indian dress but has the manners of a well bred man.