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Some of them I learn are better pleased with | Some of them I learn are better pleased with | ||
the [country?] [illegible], than they expected to be; Ko-afsee- | the [country?] [illegible], than they expected to be; Ko-afsee- | ||
[illegible] the first chief was very well pleased with the Contract you [alely] gave their Pollawotomee friends, [on the] Kansas; and could they get Co--ber there, [illegible] the tribe not required by treaty to go [can] be [illegible] to Emigrate [illegible] [illegible] be earnestly [desire?] to closer for Messr [illegible] salis? factory to the [illegible] | [illegible] the first chief was very well pleased with the Contract you [alely] gave their Pollawotomee friends, [on the] Kansas; and could they get Co--ber there, [illegible] the tribe not required by treaty to go [can] be [illegible] to Emigrate | ||
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[illegible] [illegible] be earnestly [desire?] to closer for Messr [illegible] [illegible] in a manner [salis?] factory to the [illegible]; [illegible] [department?] and [num?] | |||
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With much respect | With much respect | ||
[illegible] humble [illegible] | |||
N.G. Ewing | |||
[illegible] Messr Coquilain desires to start their [illegible] | |||
time for the payment and this in [illegible] [illegible] | |||
as [probable?] to go. | |||
[ | [signature??] | ||
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The family of the 4 chiefs (Ko-afsee-Mege-quiah, TafuteLou? and Rinannie) in regard to you in my last letters, and which Messrs Hamilton + Benoist [illegible] are now very sma-- and we will do all in our power to persuade them to go: these chiefs welcomed with Lafontaine.
Some of them I learn are better pleased with the [country?] [illegible], than they expected to be; Ko-afsee- [illegible] the first chief was very well pleased with the Contract you [alely] gave their Pollawotomee friends, [on the] Kansas; and could they get Co--ber there, [illegible] the tribe not required by treaty to go [can] be [illegible] to Emigrate
[illegible] [illegible] be earnestly [desire?] to closer for Messr [illegible] [illegible] in a manner [salis?] factory to the [illegible]; [illegible] [department?] and [num?] - With much respect [illegible] humble [illegible] N.G. Ewing
[illegible] Messr Coquilain desires to start their [illegible] time for the payment and this in [illegible] [illegible] as [probable?] to go.
[signature??]