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Done at Captain Elliotts at the mouth of Detroit River the 16th day of August 1793.

B: Lincoln, } B: Randolph, } T: Pickering. } Commissioners of the United States.

The next morning (Saturday August, 17th) The Commissioners met by their own runners (being one Onandage and two Oneidas,) the following letter and the paper therein mentioned to the Chiefs of the Six Nations.

To the Chiefs of the Six Nations.

Brothers. Two runners were sent by us this week with a message dated the 14th of this month, to the Indian Nations assembled at the Rapids of the Miami. Our instructions to the Runners were to inform you that they had such a message from us, and to request you to assemble the Chiefs of the other nations, and then deliver it to you all together. From the report of the Runners we are apprehensive that they mistook our orders, and that our message had not been communicated to you. We therefore, now send you a Copy of it No 1. We at the same time sent a letter to Colonel McKee of which also we inclose a Copy, No 2.

Brothers. Our runners returned hither this evening; but a few hours before their arrival, two Wyandots Runners arrived with a written answer No 3. to our speech of the 31st of last month, insisting on the Ohio as the boundary between the Indian lands and those of the United States. As we had already explicitly declared that we could not make the Ohio the boundary, the business, of course, was, at an end. However we, delivered a short speech in writing to the same runners, who set off this evening to return to the cause.