Correspondence with Cherokee chief

William Blount, Governor of Southwest Territory, responds to Double-Head, Chief of the Cherokee, about various questions. Double-Head has asked if his people go hunting, if they may be safe from hostile whites on the frontier. Blount assures him that the whites will not hurt his people. But warns him that it is difficult for frontiersmen to distinguish between Creeks and Cherokees, and since the Creeks are hostile toward the United States and have been known to murder whites, Cherokees may be retaliated against as well. Advices that his hunters not cross the ridge that divides the waters of the Duck and Cumberland rivers. Insists that he desires peace.