Fort Stanwix October 1784 Sir We have the honor of transmitting to your Excellency the Articles of a Treaty we concluded with the Six Nations by which the Cession of Territory is fixed so far as it depends upon those Nations — We have also secured Niagara, the carrying Place between the Lake Erie and Ontario together with Oswego and a complete Circuit around it to the United States — Measures are taking for the remittance the Collection of and Delivery of the Prisoners for which Hostages are according to the inclosed List are in our hands — Mr Butler and Mr Lee will set out immediately by the way of the Susquehanna honored for Cayahoga where we hope they will compleat the Business, by the adoption of the western Indians — The Distance of time Place and the Niagara of the above said must is inconvenient for Mr Wolcott to attend the western Treaty — The coming comes think it their Duty to mention that they have received great [undecipherable] from the Colonel [undecipherable] Governor of [undecipherable] in advancing [undecipherable] forwarded the Treaty, and the arrangement [undecipherable] of the Place who in [undecipherable] Citizens of the Place who [undecipherable] of our forbearance were [undecipherable] —