[D56] James Hargrove to the White Lieutenant of the Oakfuskys The White Lieutenant of the Oakfuskys Brother, I received your talk by M^r Townsend and like it well. I am pleased to find that you and our other friends in the upper brooks are acting in such a way as to restore your country to peace, and to keep the path between you and us White and Clear. And it seems to be your wish that I should be among you to assist in directing your affairs, and it is at the same time corresponding with my own inclination, and the desire of our good father the President of the United States. I have come to a determination that it shall be so, for the purpose of accomplishing it with safety, if you need. M^r Townsend will this talk to you and several other chiefs in the nation, requesting that you and them will take such steps as may seem good to you in order to my coming. It is my wish that as many of my friends as we fit will meet me at the Oakfuskys by the 8^th day of September, when I will attend you into the nation for the purpose of establishing a lasting peace and friendship between us and our countries. I shall go from this place to the Clark landing where I shall wait until you send M^r Townsend or some other trusty white person with me Indians or have to meet me and to inform me of your arrival at the Oakfuskys. Your great father General Washington, President of the United States, ordered back those warriors who have set out from Georgia to punish the bad towns. It is his wish and to his heart, any