[THIS MATERIAL MAY BE PROTECTED BY COPYRIGHT LAW, TITLE 17, U.S. CODE — THE WESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 10825 EAST BLVD., CLEVELAND, OHIO 44106] [NOT TO BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT WRITTEN PERMISSION OF THE WESTERN RESERVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 10825 East Boulevard, Cleveland, Ohio 44106] M^r. [undecipherable] 6 June [17—] The [undecipherable] Secretary [undecipherable] Cleveland, Ohio Claude Preston has your communication this day by way of [undecipherable]. He is now unable to go forward to the Mother Indians on account of the Indians. He would have obtained most an event, after consulting with them at [undecipherable] Creek, from the 23^d of April until the 8^th of May, but the Indians could not proceed in canoes along the shore, or by land, but appointed a vessel. He applied to [undecipherable] Gordon, Commanding Officer at [undecipherable] for a vessel, either public or private, for which he would pay, but he could not obtain one. The design therefore of visiting the noble Indians to peace, previously to [undecipherable] them, has been frustrated. Brand, with three warriors, having [undecipherable] and M^cKee with them, set out from Grand river to the Western Indians about the 11^th of May. He desires me to say, his [undecipherable] [undecipherable] that he will return in June to the [undecipherable] at the Painted Post, and the [undecipherable] will forward to [undecipherable] the Western Indians to peace. The Complaints continues