This collection includes an 1818 letter from B. Hall, Ellerslie, GA, to Tait in Washington, DC, giving reports of Indian depredations around Fort Mitchell on the Chattahoochee and in Telfair County, Georgia. Hall was disturbed that the militia was not provided with adequate supplies and indeed threatened mutiny. He mentions B.G. Orr and General Gaines. He and Tait both plan to move to Alabama to take advantage of public lands despite these dangers. A second letter, 1830, from William Smith, Washington, DC, to Tait in Claiborne, Alabama, assures him that a law has passed in Congress for the Relief of Purchasers of Public Lands.