Queries proposed by Captain Hendrick Aupaumut Chief of the Oneidas who come back for [Stockbridge?] tribe of Indians, and the answers to these queries by Timothy Pickering, Commissioner on behalf of the United States for holding a treaty with the Six Nations of Indians at Newton in the State of New York June the 3^d 1791. 1. Query. Whether if he makes a visit to the hostile Indians he may assure them, that the United States are sincerely desirous of making peace with them — Answer. The most solemn assurances may be given. As the United States are sincerely desirous of making peace and I have received granted Orders to give every possible security to the messengers of peace. 2. Query. Whether if the Western Indians consent to make peace, the United States will not, as a condition of peace, oblige them to give up over to their lands. Answer. The United States will impose no such onerous condition. The Western Indians will retain all their lands agreeable to the treaties or peace subsisting between them and the United States, until at their own will and choice, they freely being sell them, which they [having?] [terminated?] answered in [proportionable?] with the United States [having?] driven them from their Country, and in that case their lands will never be restored to them — 3^d Query. of the [hostile?] Indians should [undecipherable] to