Source
State Archives of Florida, Collection N2007-1
Description
Letter from John Blunt, chief of the Apalachicola Indians, to Judge William S. Pope regarding a robbery that occured at his house. Blunt is pleading to Pope, the local Indian agent, to come help him retreive his money and belongings. During this time, white settlers from Georgia, Alabama and Florida repeatedly harassed the Apalachicolas by stealing their livestock and slaves, despite Blunt's long-standing cooperation with the Americans. Officials seemed powerless or unwilling to stop these raids on the Apalachicola reservations, which were created along the banks of the Apalachicola River.
General Note
John Blunt (or Blount), for whom Blountstown, Florida, is named, was born to a Creek mother and European father sometime in the mid-18th century. Blunt grew up in Tuckabatchee, a large Upper Creek town located on the Tallapoosa River in what is now central Alabama.
I was at your house on yesterday but you was at Marianna let me beseach you to come down immediately, I have some faithful white friends in this neighborhood who will give you and me every assistance they can they may be able to give a clew so as for me to get some of my stolen goods + money, Jack Andias' horse was yesterday taken by a white man near this place who says as a pretence that my Black man Bolb sold him the horse to him this + many more things makes it advisable for you to come be fourthwith if Stepen Richards is at your house or in your neighborhood please bring him with you as I have sent for him twice to his house
Yours Respectfully
Colo. Blunt
Chief of Apalachicola Band of
Indians
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