I do hereby Scertify [certify] that in the month of May 1783 Majr [Major] John Reid came to the Settlement on Cumberland River, in the State of North Carolina with Talks from the Governor of Virginia , to the chiefs of theChicasaws, [Chickasaws] at which Time he the said Majr [Major] Reid delivered me a letter from Colo [Colonel] John Donaldson , a commissioner to Treat with the Chicasaws, [Chickasaws] Requesting me to furnish Majr [Major] Reid with such guids [guides] as should be required to go with him to the Chicasaws [Chickasaws] Nation, upon which Majr [Major] Reid applied to me to know the number that would be necessary for the above journey upon which I tould [told] him, I thought two was as small a number as he possably [possibly] could think to go with which number he ingaged [engaged] and no more

Jas. [James] Robertson

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John Nichols