Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: In this letter to Andrew Jackson (then serving as a Senator from Tennessee), Sampson Williams asks his friend to use his influence to prevent Congress from converting Fort Blount into a trading post. Although Williams acknowledges that the "Establishment of a trading post at Fort Blount ... will be of great advantage and convenience to the Indians" (not to mention himself), he feels that it cannot be done under the present establishment because both parties have been violating the treaty....