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the purpose bringing them 'if possible in to treat with the Re- public: not receiving any more instructions and fearing the delay of too much time; I left at the time aforesaid for Red River on the first day after leaving home I rec"ieved information of Some white men having killed some Delaware Indians in the neighbourhood of Mr. M. Harts in Fannin County; thinking it best to see what was done with them to enable myself to give satisfaction to the Indians I proceded to that place; when I Saw Mitchel Ray White and Jones part of the partisipaters in the atrociom; dead Executed on the 17th of that month; none of the Indians ware present which I verry much regretted, I recieved Some horses and outher small articles of no great value belong- ing to the Indians which I thought best to carry to the Chicka- saw Agent and deliver them to him whare the Indians would be enabled to get them. I then proceded towards the Creek Nation whare I was to fall in Companey with Messrs. Chisholm and Watson whoom was to accompaney me out to the praries; on my rout I met with many of the Friends and relations of the unfortunate Delaware that had been Killed whoom I gave ample sattisfaction or as fare as possible for the loss of those friends and relations, on my arriving on the Canadian finding Messr Chisholm and Watson awaiting my arrival we delayed as little time as possible in making ready for our journey: we thought it best to meat and hold a Council with the Indians living in that Country merely to asertain those feelings towards making peace with this Republic; Some of the Delaware, Shawnee, Kickapoo and some Creek ware present and all shewed a great desire that thare should be final peace with us forever, but showed some fear that it would not be best for us to go out in the praries at that time as they had heard so many stories about the hostil- ities of the Waco Tawakoni and Wichita, but that being our mission we thought not of desisting but raised as large an es- cort as we could which was verry small, one of them Mr N. Miller we would beg of your Hon. to notice; we prepared our selves as soon as practicable and started for the Wichita Moun- tains about fifty miles north of Red River, whilst traveling on Walnut Bayou we met with some Waco whoom informed us that the Wichita had deserted those Villages and gone with the Co- manche to the Clear Fork of the Brazos, on that day we ware overtaken by some Caddo from Wichita whoom informed us that the Keechi Capt. White Feather was coming on behind and de- sired that we should wait until he could overtake us on the
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