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CerAfca'e--i was employed by his Excellency Cover
nor iroip as bearer of an express Gen VIM 'iInosh
requesting his assent and that of the Chiefs to te survey
OF he land by Georgia lately cecd the lnar Springs
After processing to the Nation, Joseph Marshall and
William Edwards accompanied me To MJntosl,s house
aer delivering the express M,Intos, was informed by
Mlntosh that he had called meeting Of the Chiefs on the
following Sunday, which the 1Dh Of Ann-NIarsball
and Edwards both present when this co0ve,saion
TOOK Piace-alarsa Informed me, (actng Interpreter
mat when the Chiefs convened and their wishes con-
suited, that General MInosh would advise the (ocrnor
OF and observed TO in the presence of Mint.h that
ne himself had no objection to the survey Of the land and
that would be advantage the Indians for the land
to be surveyed, for they could then dispose Of great deal
OF their provisions to the ana that after the present
was made, they could sell out their improvements and he


ready next Spring to set out to the country Marshall
informed me at the time that MIntosh requested him TO


stay to the talk but said not necessary AZ s
was then gwen Marshall and Edwards and myself SET Of
ogether and several times during our Journey Marshall
Manifested ms entire appreciation of the measure of survey


g te snd and observed that he had no doubt, but ,ha,
The Chiefs would assent to the survey when they met which
would be on the 10Th Of April. yEssI. PRossEn'
Mlcdgeyillc, 2d August, 1926