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�Dec 12th an Indian, Teabatis Levy [?] stated to me that the first councilman told at the Town Ship that before he left Calais he went & saw the man that Struck him & asked him the reason he done it. The man Sed he was hired to do it by whom ask the Representative, [partially erased?] 22nd Governor John Francis was here, Saw Ms Fuller, & that Ms Fuller told him his Farther [sic] was not @ regular Soldier, therefore he could not get anything, but the Indians were called upon by Capt. Smith, & the old man got Pension money one or two years before he died, & died when he was about 99 & this Son is @ trying to got the amount that Should have been payed to him before his death, & if it could be [indecipherable] at, the old man Should have it, because he is poor & cannot go out hunting, he Sed if he could he would not ask it, & if you could ever help him that way drop me @ letter that I may read it to him . if John Gabriel [?] is taken I think now I Should not wish to go his bail to his appearance to Court [inserted line] because I have expend for them all I can, now for a time [/] your excellency can do it. Yours Very Truly, D. Gordon

[written sideways to the above on the right bottom of page] D. Gordon for Jeff [?] for Indian Agt. Pass. Indians