To Captain William Eaton The language, the [undecipherable] States having made a [undecipherable] [undecipherable] in arms with the Indian nation on our frontier and the President having determined to establish a trading post at Tellico on the river [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] has run into the [undecipherable] and other Indians to [undecipherable] willfully [undecipherable] to provide for an Office [undecipherable] establishment The [undecipherable] committee on that [undecipherable] article [undecipherable] indeed have been made into the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] in relation to laws of the United States and the right to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Washington had the like [undecipherable] [undecipherable] by a list [undecipherable] [undecipherable] was [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] military force [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] To [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] above mentioned as [undecipherable] [undecipherable] future aggressions and to preserve peace and [undecipherable] with Indians of the United States. The preserving [undecipherable] between the frontier inhabitants of [undecipherable] and the Creek Indians by protecting each against the [undecipherable] or vindictive [undecipherable] of the other as others [undecipherable] quite unfortunately the necessity [undecipherable] some further [undecipherable] on this [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] though [undecipherable] [undecipherable] I look now time of them known to be [undecipherable] minds of the white people and all [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] views have been badly and [undecipherable] murdered. Such at least is the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] by the intelligence received from [undecipherable] [undecipherable] For these [undecipherable] objects your particular attention must be [undecipherable] you will be [undecipherable] in your [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] troops under your command to an exact [undecipherable] and to have them always in readiness to execute any order relating to those [undecipherable]. A law of the United States passed on the 8^th of June 1796 having declared that if any person shall within the territory or jurisdiction of the United States carry on a trade [undecipherable] or furnish or prepare the money for any military expedition or enterprise to be carried on from thence against the territory or dominion of any foreign power or State with whom the United States are at peace every such person [undecipherable] shall on conviction be adjudged fifty [undecipherable] high misdemeanor and shall suffer fine and imprisonment at the discretion of the court in which the conviction shall be had as to fine which shall not exceed three [undecipherable] [undecipherable] nor the term of imprisonment be more than three years and the same law having also authorized the President of the United States or such other person as he shall be empowered in that [undecipherable] to employ the forces of the United States to arrest the [undecipherable] of any such expedition or enterprise. I am to inform you Commanding the President of the United States that you are hereby empowered to employ [undecipherable] under your command to this purpose aforesaid to prevent a repetition of [undecipherable] against the Spanish dominion [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Further the present commanding officer in Georgia has been apprised of the destination of the troops now embarking in that State and desired to furnish some [undecipherable] which he has a surplus to complete their organization. you will embrace the earliest [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of your arrival And of the number of troops under your command which will be upward of two hundred. [undecipherable] Colonel [undecipherable] [undecipherable] James in Georgia [undecipherable] have given him an exact knowledge of the frontier [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Stations most eligible to the protection of the inhabitants and the preservation of peace between them and the Indians the [undecipherable] finding of the Creek may require the [undecipherable] of one of those Stations or the establishing of one or [undecipherable] as [undecipherable] in this and the [undecipherable] object before mentioned and you will obey his orders or those of any other your superior officer acting in that State [undecipherable] that your [undecipherable] residence and Command is to be at the [undecipherable] post of [undecipherable: Coleraine] or other Stations at which it may [undecipherable] from it only are not to be separated or [undecipherable] [undecipherable] occasionally for the purpose [undecipherable] mentioned among [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] at the trading post well to these [undecipherable] 1^st also to [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of trade and of the buildings already erected are inadequate or need repair you will furnish out of your detachment the requisite [undecipherable] and Labourers which employed as such will be allowed extra pay and Subsistence. 2^d to provide [undecipherable] quarters for your troops either by retaining the old buildings or erecting new ones as [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for the Indian [undecipherable] will furnish all the materials which are not found on the [undecipherable] 3^d you will cultivate harmony between the [undecipherable] and the [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] needs of the trading is Committed and to the latter you will furnish only the necessary [undecipherable] [undecipherable] but every aid [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Circumstances shall require to fulfill in the most acceptable [undecipherable] and with the greatest economy the design of the establishment. As [undecipherable] the Indians who shall resort to the [undecipherable] are to be treated with perfect kindness this attention to [undecipherable] management and [undecipherable] expressed will also to be required [undecipherable] officers and men under your command and to guard against the fatal consequences of drunkenness the Soldiers [undecipherable] not be allowed to mix with the [undecipherable] in their Camps or view when any of the views of our Officers them and other precautions which your own observations on [undecipherable] [undecipherable] will be especially necessary to be attended to after when at [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and familiar intercourse shall have begun in peace. Probably a [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] or first attack [undecipherable] may be admitted but no sort of bitter or lingering [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of draughts and the Indians is ever to be allowed in any instance whatsoever. the practice would certainly be attended with abuses [undecipherable] or [undecipherable] and thus [undecipherable] mischievous effects and one thing is never to be forgotten that without throwing any [undecipherable] of jealousy you have yourself guarded against surprise this will be the more necessary on account of the [undecipherable] so numerous at all times to be apprehended of the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] against the Indians and the Custom of the latter [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to be revenged may happen at places lately gone in Stations and without you hearing of them. Timothy Pickering War Office [undecipherable] 26^th [undecipherable] [True copy from the original W^m E[aton]]