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Clarkesville 
Jany [January]  27. 1832 
Dear Sir; 
My time has been so entirely occupied attending to my duties in renting the abandoned improvements, and setting the many conflicting claims that I have not been able to write. The time allowed to travel from one country to another has in some instances been so short that I have been compeld [compelled]  to use every diligence or not reach the appointments. this duty is now nearly over and I am happy to say that the improvements commanded good prices generally. there has been a falling off in some of the large plantations, but from all the information I can obtain they have rented for fully their value; the small improvements have generally rented at improved prices from the last year.  
On my arrival at Head Quarters I learned that the Indians had taken advantage of the interregnum occationed [occasioned]  by the reorganization of the guard and were committing depredations in the small [unclear text: way ]  on the mines. the day after I arrived I sent a detachment 
 
 
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to scour the country about the upper mines; and on the next day a detachment with similar orders was dispatched to the sixe's.  
Soon after I left Scudders Colonel Williams was called upon to furnish a guard to escort some emigrating Indians to the Agency on Highwassee; the Indians on the Tennessee river having threatened to commit violence on them so even as they should cross our line, Mr Young with a detachment is now on this service. I hope to reach Head Quarters on wednesday next, when I shall again have the honor of addressing you should any thing occur.  
 
I have the honor to be most respectfully your Obdt Servt [Obedient Servant]  
[Signed] Jno [John]  Coffee  
To his Exclency [Excellency]  Wilson Lumpkin Milledgeville 
 
 
 
 
 
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To Wilson Lumpkin Governor of Georgia Milledgeville  
 
Letter 
John Coffee 
 
27 January 1832