[Letter] 1817 Mar. 23, near Augusta to David B. Mitchell, Superintendent of Indian Affairs, near Milledgeville / J[ohn] Milledge

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near Augusta,

23rd March, 1817.
Dear Sir,
Your letter gave me much pleasure -- The highly honorable appointment confered [conferred] on you by the general Government, is certainly to you more desireable [desirable] than the elevated one of Governor of the State -- 1st as to its being permanent -- 2nd The duties of the office you now hold requires a good deal of Bodily exercise, which suits you better than a sedentry [sedentary] life, from your being of a bileous [bilious] habit -- I am fearful that I am too old to make an excursion with you into the Nation -- My property in the low Country suffers for the want of my presence. Yet so great is my reluctance to leave home, that I find I shall be under the necessity to make arrangements to place it almost entirely to the direction and management of [deleted text: the [illegible text] ] [added text: Friends ] -- It is needless I should presume for me to say, the great satisfaction I should derive at your being with me at the hill -- We


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would indeed talk of Pleasures long past, and as you say, as to former aberrations we would give them to the wind -- how much we could converse of the virtues -- sentiments, and Patriotic deeds of our old friends and acquaintances, who have stepped before us into the grave -- and would not have a little to say, of those who are now figuring, in the busy scenes of life -- I thank you for your kind offer in regard to the ceded land claim -- had the States been liable to the Supreme Court of the US as [unclear text: in the ] National Constitution at the commencement that just debts founded on every Correct principle, would have long since been paid & discharged -- Remember me with sincere regard to Mrs. Mitchell -- and believe me

Yours very truly --
[Signed] Jno. [John] Milledge





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The Honble [Honorable], David B Mitchell, Superintendant [Superintendent] of Indian Affairs, [illegible text] department, near Milledgeville

Jno. [John] Milledge

23 March 1817

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