on the 15^th Kayashuta [undecipherable] Speaker of the Seneca tribes delivered the [following] Breth — Brethren — we are glad to see you safe arrived at this Place you have gone through many fatigues & troubles [undecipherable] [undecipherable] now [undecipherable] you down, who [undecipherable] all the dust & Sweat to make you well — [undecipherable] You [undecipherable] before you that the Women & Children we are all glad to see you — Before we set out [undecipherable] you told us you was coming here to [protect?] [undecipherable] glad to hear it — we depend upon it — we tell you we are for Peace. dont be the [undecipherable] — we are all of one Mind, as our Women and Children are all glad to see you — [undecipherable] we hear before you we come to [undecipherable] to hear what you will say to us we will [undecipherable] to be what is good or bad we will swallow [undecipherable] we are glad if bad we are determined to be — as you say we all look to you and send again all determined not to do any thing wrong on our part. [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to Manchester — Brethren — The Chief & Head Men of the Seneca Tribes & all those who have come to see me — I have received news that your great Chief Kayashuta told me yesterday — I thank you all for this friendly visit & for the assurances [undecipherable] of Peace — Brethren — I now tell you — your Chief Kayashuta who is [undecipherable] good Speaker for you, came with me from [undecipherable] me by the [undecipherable] that he me [undecipherable] to this [undecipherable] when we [undecipherable] Butler who now talks for [undecipherable] Father of all [those] who [undecipherable] at the Thirteen [undecipherable] their dear [undecipherable] [undecipherable] told you I was coming [undecipherable] and [protect?] you [undecipherable] told you Chief Kayashuta the [undecipherable] all that [undecipherable] Butler [before?] you [undecipherable] as you told him [undecipherable] put your hands to [Strong?] [undecipherable] lost — I will hold [undecipherable] you must not lett it go — if you do it will [fall?] out [undecipherable] it is a great [undecipherable] I cannot hold it alone you must help me — Brethren — you are all of one Mind & look to me for [undecipherable] — you and the same Men Mind — I will sit down on the same [undecipherable] & smoke the same Pipe with you & then all will be right — I am glad to see you all. I tell you it is [undecipherable] you must all hear what [undecipherable] Men till you [undecipherable] your Old Men — your Women & Children [undecipherable] not bear any injury from my young Men — you may sit down & [undecipherable] in quiet — your young Men may hunt without danger — I need to find & them to carry [undecipherable] Men [undecipherable] days to hurt you while you hold [undecipherable] Chain of Peace which the Thirteen [undecipherable] around you & them — this Chain [undecipherable] fastned together & [undecipherable] in all in One Ring of [undecipherable] and Brethren — Your [undecipherable] [undecipherable] a short march from Kayashuta with [undecipherable] [undecipherable] wheeling the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] with further assurances of Peace & full Satisfaction with what I had told them concluded their Visit — The grand Council at the mouth of [undecipherable] near Fort Pitt is broke up [undecipherable] Butler the [undecipherable] Agent was [there?] — no tribe except those of the Six Nations attended — the [Confederates?] & [undecipherable] of the Six tribes who went from this Place are still at Buffalo the others are gone to Niagara to receive [undecipherable] I cannot [learn?] the [undecipherable] of the Council nor the [undecipherable] who gave this [information?] says he was at Buffalo all was peaceable but he did not attend the Council — I cannot be under much apprehension [undecipherable] near this Place they are too [undecipherable] are they disposed for mischief but they [undecipherable] present the most friendly disposition — [undecipherable] I arrived at [undecipherable] here I found the [undecipherable] understood no language on their own [undecipherable] — would be in [undecipherable] conduct with propriety annexed