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wacos whenever I called on you. I have always looked upon you as friends who could be depended on I am happy to inform you that an opportunity now offers for you to shew the Govt that you are both good warriors and good citizens. The men of this Colony will attack the waco and Tawakany villages on the Brazos on the morn- ing of the 25 of may next, and I now call on you both as an officer of the Mexican Govt and as a friend and brother to aid us in the war with those Indians. My plan is for the Militia of this Colony to attack the waco and Tawakany villages on the main brazos river at day light on the 25 of May and for the Cherokees Shawnees and Delawares to attack the Tawak[an]y village on the head of the Nnvisot about 30 miles east of the Brazos at the same moment. As soon as the villages are destroyed, you will send a party in to the villages on the river to look' for us and we will then make such . arrangements ns may be deemed necessary. It is my wish to distroy the Toweass village on Red River before I return home and if you have men enough to spare to detach a party to attack that village at the same time we attack the others it would be best, to do so. If this cannot be done bring all your men to the Tawakanies and we will fit out a party to attack the Toweass-My friends I have in- formed you of my p]ans I have placed great confidence in you for you are the only persons out of this Colony that I have called on for aid-I am the friend of the cherokees, and wish to give them an opportunity of shewing the Government what good soldiers and faithful citizens they will make and I have no doubt if you turn out in this expedition and distroy the Tawakany village on the head of the Navisot, that it will be the means' of securing you land in the country for as many of your Nution as wish to remove herc---I have no authority to promise you land, but I will promise my aid and friendship in your favor with the Government and I have no doubt of succeeding, but you must first show the Government that you are both able and willing to fight for them. • I will also befriend the Shawnees and Delawares. Some of them may know me My father has had hundreds of them at his home at the Lead Mines in Mis- souri. he was a short fa.t man and lived nt a place called Mine 6. Burton, he traded with the Shawnees and Delnwares and was their friend I was then a little boy and have often played with the Shawnee children-we are now men and let us fight in union and together as we used to play- The bearer of this is Mr John R. Foster I have sent him express to see you and wish you to write me a positive answer by him wheither you will join us in this wnr and wheither you will attack [the] Tawakany village on the head of the Navisot at the time ap- pointed. And how many men you can furnish
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