Letter and enclosures from W.G. Ewing to William Medill, April 26 1847: Sheet #7

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State of Indiana Whitley County, ss

Personally came before me, the subscriber a Notary Public in and for said county A.H. Tyler resident of the town of Columbia in said county, and practicing physician, who being by me duly sworn, on his oath says that he frequently saw the Indians resident in said county and that he frequently conversed with them about removing West and that they always expressed an unwillingness to remove west, that about the last of September AD 1846 he saw ten or twelve Indians whom he had frequently seen before at their Wigwams in said county, with their poneys traveling north, that he spoke to them in relation to going West, and they replied that they were on their way to Michigan and did not intend to remove west and further this affiant saith not.

A.H. Tyler

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 27^th day of March A.D. 1847. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and notarial seal at Columbia

James S. Collins
Notary Public