[350] 24 April 1797 Recollect that the Commissioner appointed to treat with the Southern Indians at Hopewell in the winter 1785-6, did appoint John P. Schimers [undecipherable] interpreter to the Choctaws, that the [undecipherable] originated in part in a request made by the Choctaws, after the treaty was [undecipherable] for an interpreter among them on [undecipherable]. They merit only: and from a knowledge of the Character of P. Schimers, who has [undecipherable] of his being an honest other man, attached to the U. States, and well aquainted with the Choctaw tongue. — Do not believe that there was any fallacy mentioned in the appointment. — The more fully by him appears not unreasonable. Hor^t [undecipherable] B. H. [undecipherable] int. Ohio