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the red and white people dwelling in it live in the bonds of brotherhood and friendship. To aid in perpetuating this highly desirable object, the President has directed three of his beloved Men to meet your principal Men at South West point in the State of Tennessee an the first day of august. next: He requests you to send such of your chiefs and principal Men as you have full confidence in, then & there to meet the Commissioners; and that you will impower them to state for the consideration of Government all that you have upon your mind, to hear in behalf of your nation all that those Commissioners shall have to propose and to unclear to such proposals as the Commissioners shall make, and your Representatives shall conceive to be proper and usefull. Given at the War Office of the US. this eighteenth day of June AD 1801 Henry Dearborn Secretary of War --" left side of page has hand-drawn sketch of 13-point star representing seal bearing letters: LS Colo Meigs delivered to Colo Hawkins two packets from the Secretary of War containing the Commissions and Instructions to James Williamson Brigr General in the Service of the United States, Benjamin Hawkins of North Carolina and Andrew Pickens of South Carolina