(Letter address to  Mr. James Moore,                Mail Fort Gibson
	            Tallapoosa County                           April 12
                    Alabama
                                        Arkansas Creek Nation Apil 5 1837 

	Dear Father Sir

           I have embrace the opportunity of inform you all that am restored
	To my health again and all my family in good state of health & I 
        hope that these few unworthy lines may fined your family in good
        state of health, that Elizabeth Grierson is living with me.

           We are going to move from the Creek (Nation) in a few weeks
	from now when the wild tribes of Indians make pece, for they are at
	war with the Americans because they are helping the texans. We are
	expecting to have war in the Creek Nation before the year is out, for
	our chiefs say when all the Creek Indians guit all there guns from
	the U. States they intend to declare war, for the U. States do not do
	Justice to them in no respect whatever. The Indians are pershing
	to death for sum meat & corn, for corn is worth two or three dollars
	per bushel, meat worth ten and fifteen dollars a hundred and beef worth
	six or seven dollars a hundred and poor at that, flower worth fifteen
	dollars per Barrel, sower at that.

  	   You want to know about our country. We have a large country,
	the prary are very large, up and down the arkansaw River have timber
	and very large swamp. Sum good water in places and then bad water
	in places and bad timber in places. Sum part of the country are
	fust trate land, sum part of it so poore the trees are not more
	then twenty five or thiry feet high, hilly places, no winter range
	only good in spots of land, but swamps good, Better then the place you
	living at, for one acre of land make more corn then two acres in
	the old Creek Nation, for I have made betwine ten fifteen hundred
	bushel of corn. Contractors are offering one dol and fifty cents a
	bushel but cant buy at that, for corn is worth Two dollars at present
	Agents keep the Indians on the road so long till they has spent all
	ther money so the are able to pay nothing. At this time one part
	of the nation selling corn at three dollars per bushel got all the
	money from them that ware able to pay. Our country are  as
	good as the Cherokee Indians, but the Choctaws have the best country
	in Arkansaw better water range and timber then the Creeks.

	   Dear father I have received a letter dated the first of December
	1836 that you have not received nothing from Hunter or nobody else.
	I ask Sandy about it, he give no satisfaction about it for he wont
	pay me it to no man for he say that (he) pay it to Col. Hunter to
	pay it over to you. You must sue Hunter for the money.

	   You request to know about our country. Our country is perfect
	grave yard, for this country is destruction to we red people.
	cattle horses dog and everything in Arkansaw. Good stout rivers
	freese until the last of April. Everythings high in this country
	but I am doing tolerable well.  At this time we are making preption to
	plant, but soon as we plant corn we are going and look for better
	place then we are living at.

	   I wish my brother Jackson would come and see me, if he can make
	it convinet to come and look at the countray. The Spaniards are in
	war with old Gen. ??ston. Sevel persons have been murded by the
	Spaniards, so we all think that Huston will be conkered. We intend
	to make one crop whare we are living, for we all can not stand in
	hand with the lower town Indians. When we finds a countray to suite
	us, I write to you again. If you and my brother can make it, come, if
	not to come send me money that (is) owing to me by hand or
	inclose it in a letter to me. Do not fail of doing it, oblige me
	very much, in need of it.
	

	   So I has nothing more at present to tell you all, but have one
	girl child name Millaso. I remain your humble son

                                          John P. Moore

	To James Moore in tallapoosa County Ala.
		April 5th 1837

	Dear father sir

		I have bin sick one day and night sence I wrote this letter to
	you.
	

	Transcribed by Ronnie Moore for Jill Florence Lackey Oct 2 2002

Originally transcribed by Bettye Tate Britton

        NOTE: &o, &c; were editors marks and omited & was replaced by and