TNGenWeb Project/TNGenNet, Inc., (a Tennessee nonprofit public benefit corporation). "The Howard-Smith Collection" Transcription copyright: 1998, by Mrs. F. A. Augsbury; all rights reserved. The originals are at the McClung Library in Knoxville. This file is in text format. Please use your browser's "back" button to return to the previous page. ********************************************************************************* To: James Gaines, Esquire, Sullivan County, Tennessee From: Edmund P. Gaines, Chickesaw Nation ----------------------------------------------------------------- Commissioners Camp, Boundary Line November 26th. 1802 Dear Father I with much pleasure acknowledge the Rec't. of your letter of the 16th ultimo wherein I have the satisfaction to learn that yourself and family are well: but while I view, with delight, your solicitude for my welfare, I have reasons to fear that you have been misinformed of my state of health, and thereby experienced unnecessary uneasiness. I had in the course of the summer, an attack of the Ague which Is common to every citizen of the Territory, and which is thot nothing of longer than the attack holds. I am now, and have for some time been in good health. I am engaged in resurveying the Boundary Line Between the Territory and Chocktaw Indians, under the direction of his Excellency Gen'l. Wilkinson, who is the Commissioner on the part of the United States, for that purpose. We expect to close the Line 'ere Christmas, when I shall endeavor to obtain a furlough, and visit Holstein. I have no news, except what is announced in the Northern papers, which I presume you take-make a tender of my love to my mother and family.-in much haste, Your aff. son Edm'd. P. Gaines