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| | Washburn Arrives to Start Mission to Cherokee Tribe » The Arkansas News |
 | | LITTLE ROCK — The Rev. Cephas Washburn, a New England divine, arrived here this July of 1820 on his way upriver to select a suitable location for a new missionary establishment among the Cherokees who lived above the Mouth of Point Remove Creek. |
 | | Washburn is being sent to this territory at the request of Tolontusky, the principle chief of the Western or Arkansas Cherokees, who has asked for a mission work among his people. |
 | | Asked about his impressions of the territorial capital, Washburn said that he and his fellow parson were greatly shocked at the profanity, idleness, drunkenness, swearing, gambling, and Sabbath-breaking that they observed there. |
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