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into a war with any of their neighbors. I wish you to keep an account of your losses by the Creeks and inform me of it. I will ask the Creeks to do you justice and if they refuse, I will inform you of it, and then I will inform you what to do. George Colbert has applied to me about his claims against the Cherokees, he says he has applied to their nation and is informed in a letter from one of them that their nation have agreed to pay him for his negros, he asked us to pay him out of the annual {illegible} made the nation. If the nation was willing to pay this claim, they must get together and write to us to have it paid. If they do this, they must get together {illegible 3 words}, it must be signed by the interpreter {illegible} of the head man, and by two white men if there are any in the nation. Accept of my {illegible} wishes for the prosperity of the Chickasaws

The chief headman and warrior of the Chickasaw nation