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Chickamaga [Chickamauga]Feby [February]17th 1806Friend Col. [Colonel] Meigs
My views for sending you this talk is to request you to use your authority [unclear: so as ] compell [compel] Dempsy Fields to leave bounds of the Cherokees , he is guilty of all the charges given against [added: him] last fall at S.W. point [South West Point] & more too, He has not only imposed on John Lowrey so as to give him his Daughter in Marriage, but has defrauded him out property to a considerable amount, He has left his wife & three children inBunkom [Buncombe] County (N.C.) by the information of John Welsh of said place, report says he left another in Cumberland , His conduct are very agravating [aggravate] to us, it has
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[has] the appearance of making game of us, He has been ordered out of the Nation but I find he still remains, he appears to defy your authority, by his refusal of going a step further than Dick Fields , I expect you will convince of his error, we never wish to [added: see] him again in our country. I am much in earnest in this request & beg you will not listen to the talks of any that may take his part I view him as a dangerous man, he has confessed that Dick Fields proposed the plan of runing [running] off horses, one to take & the other to find sale for them, this is one of my reasons among many for wishing him intirely [entirely] away. I am much surprised that Major Lovely should step forward in defence [defense] , of Fields, by recommeding [recommending] him to favour, he has opposed your intentions of sending [a way]
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away, Friend the small pox are spreading through nation & is got as low as [unclear: Mr [Mister] Browns ] , do Friend procure as quick as possible some of the cowpox & send it to Mr. Ross with out loss of time, we wish a Doctor to come on also possibly some of the Doctors of Knoxville or Maryville May be in position of the matter, if [added: not] procure it from the North and by the Post in complying with this request you will be instrumental in Saving many lives, we are with much regard your friends &c Pathkiller principle [added: chief]
Jno [John]Lowry [added: N.B. please to pay the bearer six dollars & charge it to the Nation Be so kind as forward [unclear: Mr Blackburs ] letter, without delay]Jno Lowry
Pathkiller Col. Meigs }
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[added: Pathkiller & J. Lowry's letter. Small Pox, Dempsey Fields &c. February 17th 1806 Mr Ross letter by Lontee a young Cherokee]
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