This memorial, though written at Charleston, South Carolina, bears date only twelve days later than the articles of capitulation, entered into at "Fort Dade in Florida." Of this movement of the slaveholders, General Jessup appears not to have been informed at the time; nor is there any doubt that he then intended to carry out this solemn compact in good faith. On the nineteenth of March, we find his aid-de-camp Colonel Chambers, by order of General Jessup, writing Lieutenant Colonel Harney, stationed at Fort Mellon, directing him not to permit the friendly Indians (the Creeks) to pass into the country occupied by the Seminoles, and to distinctly inform the Creeks they "_must make no more captures of property_;" and if they had made any since the signing of the treaty, (meaning the capitulation,) Harney was directed to take a list of such captures. But the first serious difficulty suggested to General Jessup, in carrying out his stipulations with the "_allies_," appears to have been a letter from Major Thomas Child, commanding at Fort Armstrong, informing him that a "Colonel Dill," a citizen of Florida, was at that post, wishing to pass into the Indian country for the purpose of reclaiming certain negroes which he professed to have owned, but who were then supposed to have fled to the Seminoles. In reply to this note Colonel Chambers said: "I am _instructed by the commanding General_ to say, that 'Colonel Dill,' the person whom you report having detained at Fort Armstrong, must not be permitted to pass, _but be required to return from whence he came with all convenient dispatch_. Hereafter, no person, not in the employment of the Government, or express rider, must be allowed to pass your post. The necessity of this order, and the strict enforcement of it, arise from the necessity, that, if persons come forward to urge their claims to negroes, it will evidently prevent the negroes from coming in; and if they do not come in, the commanding General is decidedly of opinion, that the Indians themselves will be greatly delayed, if not entirely prevented, from compliance with the terms of capitulation."