Posted By:	David Grierson-LYON
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	Subject:	Re: Grayson/Grierson
	Post Date:	December 27, 2007 at 13:48:34
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	Forum:	Grayson Family Genealogy Forum
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Beth: Have you seen this? (Oakfuskee County, Alabama Creek Nation ~ November 29th, 1820 ~ Dear Sir: I am under the dis-agreeable necessity of troubling you on several cases, which is out of my power to do without your interference, which I do intreat you will do in my favour ~ you no doubt have been conversant with my situation with Henry Walker which judgment is now satisfied & I have a full receipt from (General) McIntosh for a considerable amount more the sum they had against me ~ which judgement was as unjust as many others likely to be made out against me ~ at the time I was using my best effort to secure my property from the robbery of McIntosh, my Daughter, Lessey took her property over the line into Montgomery County for protection & appointed a Mr. Bats, an overseer over the negroes & gave him a 'power of attorney' to superintend the business of the farm & no other ~ which you will infer from the _____ of the letter of my attorney to me. Mr. Bats very dishonestly made sale of the negroes to a Mr. Jesse Evans & was within a very few miles of getting the negoes run entirely out of our reach & could most assuredly have attained their objective had it not been for the exertions & ingenuity of one of the black men in causing them to escape & come home to this place; which we are in daily dread of them coming to rob us of the property & not only this but I put into the hands of [begin p. 2 of letter] Mr. Bats, a number of valueble papers, to wit: A receipt on (Capt.) Kennan for James Black's bonds for five thousands dollars, which receipt he has acknowledged he has delivered to Mr. Black & tooke a bond as we suppose to him-self for the same ~ which he refuses to give up ~ & a number of other papers of less magnitude ~ I am interested by my sons, Sandy [Alexander] & Trotter Grierson [Trotter's first name is unknown to me at present, but I am assuming he is one of the oldest of Robert's children] they are always complaining that they have lost their negroes by me; these are not the facts for Sandy [Alexander] holds his order, & is now from time to time receiving pay for them which can easily be substantiated. I have been informed that they have been to Mr. McIntosh & he has agreed with them to take the whole of the property from us & make _____ of it to their own liking which will be the nearest thing to death ~ I have given them a divide of property, they have lost it & now they are wanting to take & rob the three youngest children of what they have & who they legally got from me; & those eldest children are ungrateful to the extreme to me ~ affording me no relief nor comforts in old age, but the contrary are threatening abuses of all kinds to myself & the three other children at home. We have yet a sufficiency to subsist upon if we could be let a cow ~ & could get the negroes out of the hands of the other children; who are improperly detaining the property out of the hands of my daughter, Lessey's hands, who has the just & legal right to them by my deeds of gift to her. The Big-Warrior came here, & contrary to reason, law or gratitude; he drew up the negroes & made a divide up by arbitrary power, [begin page 3 of letter] paying no regard to my titles or wish on the subject & indeed ridiculing & abusing me in the most violent & absurd manner ~ ordering me to be silent & not open my mouth or he would take the whole of them & make a public sale of them. Now my dear sir, this kind of treatment to a free man & to a person who has exercized the industry & economy that I have procured, a property & a living could not be born by any person except placed in my helpless situation compelled to set in my chair & bare his insulting language as well as my complicated disease of which I have been, for this long time afflicted ~ Those children in whose hands I now am are disposed to treat me human tender & as becomes children to a parent ~ & _________ saw I am anxious they should be rewarded for their kindness to me ~ I have resided in the country for a long time & I have been a _______ in the Land ~ I have always acted ________ & laws regulating those things ~ a _________ the ______ robbed & abused in this unlawful manner in this my advanced stage of my age & extreme frailty of body makes the burden more than I can bare ~ My Der sir, I do most earnestly implore you, would cause the proper representation to be made to the proper authority & see that justice be done in the various heads I have addressed you on ~ I intreat you as an agent & as a countryman ~ & have confidence ~ [deleted] & have [begin page 4 of letter] that you will do so. I will rest more then I have for some time & act no more but remain with sentiments of high esteem &c, et cetera. David B. Mitchell, (Agent for Indian Affairs), Signed ~ Robert Grierson.