[281] We have sent off to have Galphin and Upton taken for fear they should make them escape. We have agreed to give up two [undecipherable] men from the Chickasaws, two from [undecipherable] Town, and one from the [undecipherable]. If we had got the letters sooner you should have had the [undecipherable] immediately the [undecipherable] you mention, but you must allowed longer time for it is the wish of the Upper Towns to do it - this will be a warning to the young people, then they will mind what their head men says to them and not before. Tuckahache 7^th April 1792 Dear friend and Brother, This comes from your Brothers the Head Men, the White Lieutenant, David Cornell, Alexander Cornell, M^r Weatherford, and thirteen other Headmen of the Upper Creeks, who agree with me both together - That David Cornell and the Headmen of the Upper Towns, and Warriors all agree to your talk, and intend to hold them fast by the hand, and never to let it go as long as they live. You heard the Northern Indians were among us but we never listened to any of their talks, nor would suffer any of them to give any out among our people, for we dont want to shed any White Peoples blood for I have got the White Peoples blood in me. We refused to go to War against the Chickasaws, and if we dont we will come again to see you. We formerly went to war against the [undecipherable] people, but since we heard your talk we dont intend to go to War against them any more. the Head Mans brother and Nephew went with our leaders home in the Chickasaws, and they killed them both Col[undecipherable]