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Petition to Governor - Pamlico Co, NC 1703-04
Signed by Edward Gatlin
Source: NC Historical and Genealogical Register
Vol. 2, page 194 Published
1901.
Pamlico in North Carolina Feb. 29, 1703-04
To ye Honble ye Gov'r and Counsell wee whose names are under written
doe Hum present to your Honrs.
That wee have great reason to believe yt ye neighboring
towns of ye Tuscororah Indians are of late dissatisfied with ye Inhabitants
of this place and severall actions and discourses of ye bare-river Indians
and more than ordinary familiarity of late yt is between them and ye Tuscororas
Indians is to believe yt they are Indeavoring to persuade them yt ye English
here desires a war against them ******** if yor Honor does not speedily
take sum Care in ye matter wee may receive sum prejudice from them the
wch wee suppose might be prevented and yt sum of ye Chiefs of ye Indians
would come in to yor Honrs if you would speedily please to send a good
Interpreter here with orders what to doe and such of us yor Honrs shall
apoint are ready to goe with such an Interpreter, Wee pray yt yor Honrs
will take some speedy care in ye promises for our preservation as to goe
without shall soon not one remain.
Yr. Hum. Servts.
Lyonell Reading
Richard Smith
Nicholas Tyler
Thos. Dereham
Levi Truewhitt
Wm. Brite
Isum Legge
Wm. Powell
Edward Gatlin
Thos. Pierce