(Letter Addressed to       Peter Dudly
                           Tallapoosa County
                           Ala.

                                              Mail by Wm. Winslett)
                                     Creek Nation Arkansaw  T.

Dear friend

       I have the opportunity of inform you all that I am yet in the
Land of the living and all my friends injoing good state of health.
All my friends send there best compliments to you and your wife, for
the Indians say that they wish you would come to this country to
trade with you. I was very sorry to hear that you was left behind
from your friends.
      

      My wife Anna sends her best love to your wife. Mrs. Dudly, you
must write to us you and Mr. P. Dudly and let me know how our old creek 
nation is flushing and how my father coming on and my brother Jackson.
I have write sevel letters to them I have received no answer from
either of them or any of my friends. None of them do write to me.

     You must not forget me because we are in the western countray.
We are in a countray ware we are not use to. The waters are bad and
brackish. We are very sickly at times. We that has bin hear stand
it better than them that come last. It is not the countray ware we are
living but the land is better than the richest land you all got in
the old Creek Nation. One acre of land hear worth Two there.

     I have bin very sick sence I see you all last and all my Family
was all sick but has bin restored to there health again. A great
deal of my friends are dead in this countray.  All the Griersons are
come to this countray, but we are going to move from this countray by
next winter if we are all alive. Our Nation are in a great confusion 
at (this) time with the head men, individuals, about how the women and
children suffed on the road. The nation is divided at this time.
Sume are gone over on the Cannada , they are about
fifty or sixty miles apart. The agent has called a counsel, but it
has not come on, for all to conclude what they must do.
  

    I have no more to say but give my best love to my father and my
mother, and the rest of the connecktions.  So remain your friend
until death.

                           John P.  Moore

P.S. Write as soon as you receive this from me and tell my father
to write to me.

Feb. 3th 1837

Transcribed as written by Ronnie Moore for Jill Florence Lackey Oct 2 2002
    

 Originally Transcribe by Bettye Tate Britton

NOTE: &o, &c; were editors marksand omit & was replaced with and

NOTE: Cannada =(Canadian River)