[S. Ogden] [XXVI - 134] My dear Sir Delaware Works [undecipherable] I [undecipherable] a [undecipherable] from my [undecipherable] [undecipherable] that four Cherokee Chiefs have arrived at [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Indians in order to persuade [the?] Lord Dorchester permission for the [western?] and [Northern?] Indians to join them, and the [Southern?] Indians in the War against the United States and that his Lordship sent to [undecipherable] on this Respect. As I conceive this information may be proper for the President [knowing?] the [existence?] of the present Treaty I communicate it to You - and it may not be improper to add that a formal [undecipherable] was sent last Autumn from the [Southern?] Indians consisting of fourteen Chiefs to the Six [Nations?] - the interview was held at the [undecipherable] towns when after relating to the Six Nations a dismal train of evils they had suffered from the Americans, they urged a general Confederacy; and the war being made a common cause. Brant and the other Chiefs after mature consideration - Objected to the proposition of entering into the war Alleging that their Common Father the King of England had entered into a Peace with the United States which was at his Children binding on them, and that they could not without his permission take up the Hatchet - therefore advised them to return home and make a Peace with the Americans &c &c - As I fear I shall be too late for the Post I can not add more than that I am Yours, most freely [signature]