I have the honor to transmit to your Excellency herewith enclosed a proclamation issued by the United States in Congress Assembled & sundry Resolutions passed by them touching intrusions upon the hunting grounds reserved by the Treaty to the Cherokees, & unprovoked outrages committed upon the said Indians. I trust your Excellency will as far as depends on you, use your influence that the proclamation & measures taken by Congress may have the intended
effect to restore peace & harmony between the Citizens of the United States and the Cherokees & to prevent any further invasions of their respective rights and possessions. I also enclose a Copy of the papers which have been transmitted to Congress respecting Hostilities alleged to have been committed by John Sevier & others into which you are earnestly requested to cause enquiry to be made & if found true to take measures to have the perpetrators thereof apprehended & punished.