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Ganesville  
January 31st 1832. 
Dr [Dear]  Sir; 
At the request of the persons concerned I inclose [enclose]  you a statement made by each party, respecting their claims to improvements made by white persons inside of a neighbourhood [neighborhood]  fence made for the purpose of keeping the cattle from the Chattahuchee bottoms, as well as protecting their crops. I expect you have seen Majr. [Major]  Waters, he told me he would call on you, my opinion is that he has no legitimate claim to the improvements thus made by white men. The length of this fence is stated by some to be nine, and others twelve miles, Majr. [Major]  Waters admits it to be six miles. your opinion I have no doubt would give satisfaction to all concerned. The renting of [off]  yesterday was quite as good as I expected. The aggregate amount in the five counties will be about ten thousand dollars.  
 
I have the honor to be most respectfully your obdt Sert. [obedient Servant]  
[Signed] Jno [John]  Coffee  
To his Exelency [Excellency]  Wilson Lumpkin Governor of Georgia 
 
 
 
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I certify the fence enclosing the bend below Major Waters' [deleted text: plantation ]  [added text: house ]  was made in the year  
1827. for three purposes viz. 1st for the protection of a field in the bend that we had cleared. 2d. for the purpose of raising stock Hogs 3d. by [added text: enclosing ]  the bend we would have an oppy [opportunity]  of clearing more land when we Shou'd [Should]  require it. I have lived with Major Waters for upwards of five years, at the time I enclosed the bend there was no claim or clearing but Major Waters' within the bend in the year  
1829 Webb and Coleman cleared each of them a field within the bend, our fence protected their crops to the present time. the year  
1830 Andrew Hambleton, Z. [Zachariah]  Slayton, Jno [John]  -- Hambleton and A. Pierce cleared each a field within [deleted text: one ]  [added text: said ]  fence, which fence protected their crops. I do further certify that Major Waters works from 17 to 20 hands since my residence with him. by these persons clearing the land within our fence we have been prevented clearing as much 
 
 
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land as our force required --  
 
[Signed] Martin Brannon his X mark 
In Presence of  
[Signed] john anderson  
 
 
 
 
 
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Gainesville Ga [Georgia] } 
 
6th Feb [February] } 
To his Exelency [Excellency]  Wilson Lumpkin Governor of Georgia Milledgeville  
 
Letter 
John Coffee 
 
31 Jany [January]  1832 
with other papers enclosed 
Cherokee Gold Mines  
 
A. [Andrew]  Hamilton