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be sent forward by the first Dispatches to Natchez. I am very unwell, I am extremely irritated, & in a greater hurry than before.

I am Sir, with the utmost Esteem yr Hbl St

N. Hunter.

P. S. Colonel Pickering ask’d a day or two before I left Pha whether I wd be willing to put my name to the acct given respecting the Spaniards wishing to excite the Indians to hostilities with the U.S. I told him that Wm Knox had given him such a wrighting with my name to it, & that must be somewere amongst his papers – but I recollect since that it was copied by Knox & that my name was [illegible]. The original, I left with you, which I beg you'd mentioned to the Secry, with my approbation to make use of it as he may think proper. – N. H.

Colo McHenry Secy at War