THE AUSTIN PAPERS. 1355 me l1e was But that he wood not Leave here untill the Indian diffi- culty was over. I saw in him the coward from the commencement you may Rely on It he can not stand Indian fighting If you think so yon are decieved he does more harm here and made more con- fusion among the people than he can attone for. Every act of his here from the commencement evinced a cowardly disposition and he has now made a precipitate Retreat from as he thinks danger his whole conduct here since the commencement of this business as an officer has been Ridiculous. I am completely deceived in Sims in Every shape about the time he left here he stated to Mr. Hope that he wus very much displeased with me and that I owed him Eight Hundred dollars and that he Intended to hand me my acct and as soon ns he arrived below at your place he wood sue me he has now left here without hnnclin~ me any acct. Sims Bot of me Two Labours of Land which I allways considered paid him for surveying my Land this is well known he took possession of the Land surveyed It himself and has Improved on It I charge him with It. and he must take it and pay for It. I have charged It at the price we agreed on as you will discover from the Inclosed act. I have witness Enough to prove all this there is fiftysix dollars and seventy five cents which I paid Edwards and Brown for him seventy dollars I agreed to pay you on Curtises Note Thompsons and :Millers notes I agreed to pay you for him which you will dis- cover is charged in my net. against Sims I wish you to credit Ola curtis' Note with $70. and I pay the above Note of $247.50 which you will also charge me with this was an understanding amongst us all in consiquence of the Trade I made with Brook. I doo not know what Sims act. is But have some Reasons to believe I should object to some part of It and I wood further state to you that Sims conduct toward's. me Recently authorises me to say that he is un- worthy of confidence or the Friendship of any decent man and these things I mention to you that you may be on your guard If you <loo not you will be deceived My object in sending you the Inclosed ac~is to show how he wishes to treat me and to Rebut his Yours Sincerely JNo P CoLES [Rubric] P S. My compliments to your Brother-as Regards the affnir of young Woods I can say to you that they did apply to me to marry them and I Refused to <loo so and U1ey are not married at all J. p COLES I must say further of Sims he has he lied and slanderd almost Every man and woman in this part of the country It was well for him he got off from here when he did the whole settlement is at outs
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