Dear Colo
It appears that about fifty of the Keronkiweys are Coming on to
attact the lower Settlement of this river and have said they would
devide into two Companys and perhaps one Company May Come up
the River as high as this Settlement we have determined to Collect
all our familys to one place perhaps here in order to guard them
which will take all the Men we Can raise in the upper Detachment
of this district I think about forty Men from the Brassos and
what Men there is in the lower Settlement on this River May be
enough to meet them which would be well to do as soon as possible-
August 25th 1824
James Cummins [Rubric]
[Addressed:] Col° Stephen F. Austin San Felipe de Austin