[S. Ogden] [2516] [XXVI-134] My dear Sir Delaware Works Sep.^t 7.^th from a Gent.ⁿ last from the Land thou may depend on it that four [strikethrough: Months] Mingo Chiefs have arrived at Niagara the said Indians in order to procure from Lord Dorchester permission for the western and Northern Indians to join them, and the hostile Indians in the War against the United States - and that his Lordship is said to be attended on this Business. As I conceive this information may be proper for the President during the operations of the present treaty I communicate it to You. - And it may not be improper to add that a formal Embassy was sent last Autumn from the Southern Indians consisting of fourteen Chiefs to the Six Nations - the business was had at the