Affidavit of John Albertson, I am 65 or 70 years old I live near Utica IT and am a chickasaw Indian by blood and do not understand the english lanquage very well [Joseph E. Nelson translated] I lwas born and lived in the old naiton in Mississippi till I was about 15 years old. I came west and have lived here ever since. While I was a boy in Mississippi I know a family of Choctaws there by the name of Pyane. I do not know whether they were full bloods or only mixed bloods. SInce I came to the Territory I have known only one indian by the name of Payne and he died about 20 years agoat the age of about 50 or 60 years. He died up west of caddo about 12 or 13 miles. His wife died a long time ago and they had 2 boys I think one of them went up abover where Lehigh is now and do not know werhe the other one went to. Believed this is the Bromide Springs Payne's any one knows.