Knoxville Sunday October 7. 1792 Sir The enclosed papers contain all the information I have received worth communicating from the Cherokees since visiting you by M^r Allison on the 26 September. So many days past I have hourly been in expectation of an express from Cumberland – nor have I heard of the bucks and Cherokees since they passed the Tennessee as mentioned in the letter of the Breath and Charley and by John Doggs on the 17 of September The Militia are turning out with unusual alacrity rooms of them have made their appearance from the upper counties and the whole number called for will be here by Saturday Night. [undecipherable] of your orders as speedily as possible and have [undecipherable] Your most obedient humble Servant signed— W^m Blount Henry Knox Esquire Secretary [undecipherable] War. Look out Mountain September 15. 1792 Friend and Brother We have heard your letter you sent to the [undecipherable] and the Beloved fellows. the Beloved Fellow is at home, and the [undecipherable] is gone to the little turkey we are very glad to see it we are likewise glad it was in our power to stop the young fellows from going to War with the Whites our Elder Brothers, as our people and your people in: [undecipherable] as it were together you and them is so near each other, you mention that we ought to consider matts well before beginning a war. It is very true war is very bad and I hope you now we shall see no more of it but live in peace. But we are sorry to inform you, you may think it a lie, but we assure you it is the truth that we are very sorry That four days after our people had dispersed to their different homes there was a great number of Creeks passed by here for several days it was out of our power to stop them they said there was several hundreds crossed the River low down and had with them 500 of powder and lead accordingly they said they were going to Cumberland it is not the principal head Men of the Creek Nation but young fellows and indeed a great number of them boys. They said that [undecipherable]: Robertson and General Pickens had told them [undecipherable] We are much obliged to you for your advice in sitting we take [undecipherable] on 20 the innocent would undoubtably suffer. We have told you the Creeks always going and we hope you will not let any of our people suffer for bad doings of the Creeks for we tell you they are gone the exact number we do not know. We heard that M^r Sevier says it will not be long before he sets out for War that he is to come to this place and all about here and there. Here is another Warrior to come with an Army for [undecipherable] in order to destroy the Nation such talks makes our young people very uneasy, we could wish that your carriers would not bring such talks unless you intend to do so these from. Your friends and brothers His Excellency signed the Breath and Charles William Blount. Note. There must be a mistake in the date of this letter from the information stated from Dogg, it must have been written on the 23 September [undecipherable] On Friday the 28 September 1792 John Dogg returned to Knoxville from the five lower towns where he had been to carry the letters of the 15 instant from Governor Blount to the [undecipherable] and the [undecipherable] fellow in answer to those of the 16 September and delivered to Governor Blount the letter of the Breath of Nickayjack and Charley of the Running Water dated September 15. 1792. (this must have been a mistake in the date of this letter it was probably written on the 23 September) Dogg continued with Governor Blount from Saturday the 28^th to Sunday the 30 and with him the Hanging man Unacata the brother of John Watts and three other Indians. During this time Governor Blount extracted all the information he possibly could respecting the Indians and both Dogg and the [undecipherable] appears to be quite candid and communicative. The amount of the information given by [undecipherable] Dogg was that from the 15 to the 17 instant the Creeks were passing the Tennessee at the Running Water, Nickayjack and at a place called the [undecipherable] Crossing from where they [undecipherable] miles below Nickajack on their way to invade the district of [undecipherable] Cumberland and a settlement and that they were joined by from 100 to 200 Cherokees among whom was John Watts and that the Creeks had with them a great quantity of powder and lead which they had received from the Spaniards, that the whole were to congregate at the place where the different paths came together on their way towards Nashville and to concert their measures of attack upon the Cumberland settlements. That while he was at the Look out Mountains he was informed that Michael Findleton and a Frenchman had passed on from [undecipherable] Pensacola to Cumberland to obtain information of this true situation of that country and were to return in ten nights and report such as they could [undecipherable] That he found it generally understood in the lower Towns as well as the other parts of the Nation through which he passed that such of the Inhabitants of the five Lower [undecipherable] Towns [undecipherable]ows did not want war but lost leave there, and that such of the other Towns as did want war had best move to them and that some of both parties were now moving so as to take the situation which best suited their wishes and disposition for war or peace. Dogg is a Halfbreed well known to many White People and by all parties viewed as a Man of veracity. The Hanging Man said he and the Little Turkey and all the chiefs of the [undecipherable] Nations except of the five Lower Towns were for peace and that the five Lower Towns were for war, that they expected to be attacked and destroyed and were providing against that event, some intended moving nearer the Creeks, others to go West of the Mississippi River [undecipherable] Lines to grace and others among whom was the Shawnees Warrior and his party of the running water to form a settlement at the Creek crossing place of the Tennessee a small distance above the Shoals at the mouth of a Creek on the South [undecipherable] side there to be joined and supported in a perpetual war against the United States by a party of Shawnees who are expected shortly to arrive at that place by water by way of the Ohio and Tennessee. Unacata the Brother of John Watts a good natured pleasant fellow on Saturday having drunk freely of Whiskey and conversing with the [undecipherable] Dogg and the other Indians told several Stories with much humour of the attention that Governor Blount and the White People had always paid to Watts whenever he came among them – now he said Watts was for war with the Whites and had sent for him to join him, and he had given Watts for answer that the Whites had given him [Watts] a great many fine Clothes and that he had given [undecipherable] many all the Clothes he [Unacata] had he had earned and paid for and that if he [Watts] went to War and he felt he might lay them. he Unacata would not pick him up, meaning he would not avenge his death according to their law. This conversation was overheard by Captain Chiselen and M^r White who understood what he said – Governor Blount asking the Hanging Man about another Unacata who with his Wife had been with the Governor in the latter part of August ten or twelve days, been well treated and made great professions of Friendship was answered, that he too had thought him a good Man but [undecipherable] had caused him to War and he supposed he must be killed. Knoxville September 30. 1792. A Message from Pensacola is coming from [undecipherable] to Governor Blount, received at [undecipherable] on the [undecipherable] and delivered at Knoxville on the 5 October 1792 by John [undecipherable] ([undecipherable] is an old Frenchman and was in the treaty of [undecipherable]) The Mountain views: you have many Indians in them for war, take care of your people don't let them go out by tens or [undecipherable] into their fields – the lower Towns are all rogue and [undecipherable] you the Creeks make haste and come and destroy them, come by [undecipherable] and I will find you provisions as you go – [undecipherable] was here the other day from the Lower Towns saying he had been out many [undecipherable] talks and was now for peace don't you believe him he is still for war and means to raise a party and join his Brother the Creek and another Brother of his [undecipherable] has passed here yesterday with three other Cherokees of [undecipherable] Town and five Creeks declaring they were going to kill St. Louis take care of them – they will some mischief before they return. A number of Shawnees have already settled down on the [undecipherable] River, (1) the mouth of a Creek and many more are coming those who have arrived have with them many goods blankets and French and other goods where they got them [undecipherable] knows but they must have distressed many people to get them either by water or land (1) The Cherokees call the Tennessee the Big River Information by John [undecipherable] who lives at [undecipherable] with James [undecipherable] and who brought up [undecipherable] son from [undecipherable] to his father and arrived at Knoxville the 5 October 1792. That as he came through the Cherokee Nation with [undecipherable] son [undecipherable] a Cherokee at [undecipherable] place [undecipherable] came up to him and said to him you are an old man go along but it is war time and this boy and his horse it will have – [undecipherable] replied to him he was joking and he said he was not and he would have boy and horse – Upon which the [undecipherable] Son of [undecipherable] who had been selected by the headman of that place to accompany [undecipherable] and insure safety to young [undecipherable] stopped up and said he would protect him at the Risque of his life [undecipherable] then desisted and [undecipherable] proceeded in safety with the [undecipherable] Son to [undecipherable] and there [undecipherable]. The Son in Law of the [undecipherable] joined this party to insure [undecipherable] fate to young [undecipherable] and came with [undecipherable] [undecipherable] said with exceptions of all the Cherokee Towns except the five lower were for peace but that many of the young men of every part of the Nation discovered an inclination to join the war party of the lower Towns. ______ (1) forty Miles from [undecipherable] On the 2^d of October 1792 [undecipherable] Blacks blockhouse on the head of [undecipherable] a branch of Little River at which there was a Sergeant's command from Captain [undecipherable] company was attacked by Surprise about an hour and a half in night by a party of Indians commanded by a Cherokee of Watts Town called the Tail a brother of the Creek, and a [undecipherable] consisting of three other Cherokees and five Creeks. James Paul was killed in the house and George [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] sitting out by a fire and John [undecipherable] wounded and their house were taken and seven carried off.