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The commissioners appointed to hold a treaty with the Creeks, have name the 20th Dec. Next & at the Indian Sayings for that Mutiny, in consequence of which, I have been engaged have in making a contract for suppliers, and a fact days since, I received a letter from two of the principal Chiefs, the Big Warrior and Little Prince, in which they object to the place of meeting, named by the Commissioners. To remove this objections I conceive to be an immediate and important duty and for that purpose I have dispatched Talks to those Chiefs and to Chiefs of different towns and to McIntosh, in which I endeavour [sic] to remove their objections and it may become necessary that I should visit some of the most influential of them but whether I do or not, you will readily perceive the necessity of my presence and attention to this subject until the Treaty is over otherwise much inconvenience & delay must ensue the Contract for suppliers have been made upon? their objections were known. To attend to my duty in this respect and take my testimony over again at the same time, scattered as my most material witnesses are over three or four states, is I conceive impossible. But with due submission, I could? it to be perfectly unnecessary for me to take the testimony over again became Gov. Clark has been furnished with a list of my Witnesses and the facts which I expected to prove by them, and he had and State has, the same right to examine any and all of them, which I had or have. hence the