Sir:—I have consulted my friends in relation to your proposals of settlement, and they, as well as myself, are of the opinion that your conduct, and that of your unworthy clan is so base, that it would be morally wrong, and detract from the dignity of a gentleman, to hold conference with you—the repeated insults and abuses, I, as well as my friends, have suffered from your unlawful course towards us, demands honorable resentment. We are resolved to make this our motto— nothing on our part has been done to provoke your anger; but have done all things as become men. You have trampled upon every thing we held dear and sacred— you have set all law at defiance and profaned the name of the most high, to carry oat [out] your damnable purposes—and I have nothing more to fear from you, than you have already threatened; and I, as well as my friends, will stay here, and maintain and magnify the law, as long as we do stay. We are resolved never to leave until we sell or exchange the property that we have here.

The proposals made by your agent as well as the threats you sent to intimidate me, I disdain, and dispise, as I do the unhallowed author. The rights of my family and friends, demand at my hands a refusal of all your offers . We are united in virtue and truth, and we set hell at defiance and all her agents.