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Douglass 21st Decr. 1801
Dear Sir
I received yours of the 14th [Inst.] in favour of the Indians the bearer of your letter John Wills or Wilmot has a wife and Eight children onely two that can be of any help to them - John Tom a wife and five children all small - Peter Nugent a wife and two children - they are the poorest objects I Ever seen they have hardly any cloathing. Nugent and Tom is drunken Dogs if they could get wherewith to support it Wilmot is sober and seems religous and he says aflicted with the rhumatism that he says he cannot [hunt?] - he and his family is realy