[Copy] To the Sachems Chiefs and Warriors of the Five Nations. Brothers, In the last Speech I made to you at the Council Fire at Newtown, I proposed that a small number of the Chiefs should come to Philadelphia after the Harvest, to see the Great Chief, and the Great Council of the United States, in order to fix with them the time and manner of introducing among you the Knowledge of Farming, of Smiths & Carpenters work, of Spinning & Weaving, and of reading & writing. Brothers. I gave you then assurances that our Great Chief and Great Council would provide for you whatever should be necessary for those purposes. That you might become knowing & happy in the abundance of all good things like our Brothers of the United States. I told you that my words should be true, and that what I spoke should come from my heart. Brothers. I now Speak to inform you that the Great Chief and the Great Council of the United States are met together and have kindled a Great Council Fire at Philadelphia, and that they are now ready to talk with you, and fulfill all the promises which I made to you in their names. I therefore repeat my Invitation to you to depute a small number of the principal Chiefs to come to this city for the purpose before mentioned. And because this business is of great importance to you and to your Children it may be best that a few more should come than I proposed. Below are written the names of a number of Chiefs whom I wish to come, because you appeared to put great confidence in them. Those Chiefs will be sufficient to manage the business in behalf of the Five Nations and the Sooner they get here the better, that there may be full time, by the next Spring to make all the necessary Preparation for your assistance. Brothers. Before I left Newtown I spoke to Mr. [undecipherable] to come with you; for I saw that he was a ready Interpreter; and that you liked to have him by your Side. Peter Hiquette, the Oneida, can also interpret very well, and I shall ask him to come with you. Mr. Kirkland I expect will attend you, and provide every thing necessary for you on the way. And [was so] Good as to undertake to have the Speech communicated to you. Brothers. I am impatient for your arrival, that you may receive strong proofs that the words I Spoke to you have been true - that they came from my heart. And that the United States are faithful to their Engagements. Brothers. Though my Invitation to you, to come to the late Treaty at Newtown was general yet none of the [undecipherable] attended, and I have never had the pleasure of seeing their face. Captain [undecipherable: Brant] - If it should be convenient for him to come with the other Chiefs whom I have named, I shall be happy to see him. And I am Sure that that the Great Chief and the Great Council of the United States will receive him as a Friend and Brother. Brother. That you may know these are my words and that I mean them with my own hand which you have often seen subscribed them with my name, and with the name you gave me and thereto affixed my Seal. Done at Philadelphia the nineteenth day of December in the fifteenth year of the Independence of the United States. (Signed) Timothy Pickering [seal] [undecipherable] Names of Chiefs Ho-xai-ye-wus — or the Farmers Brother Honey Sauquash — or Red Jacket Sau-goo-a-hut-hue — or Little Billy [undecipherable]-ke-a-ge — or Big Tree Ha-as-de-was-male — or [undecipherable] [undecipherable]-ge-cause-dan-ye-te — or [undecipherable: Close] Ship [undecipherable] — or [undecipherable: Thrown] Face Ham-hit-to-tuck — or [undecipherable] Au-jou-get-tu — or the Fish [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — John [undecipherable]-huck-tuck-jus — or Good [undecipherable] De-nut-guck-tombs — or [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — Captain [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Fitzwalliere — [undecipherable: Tuscarora] Chief [undecipherable] — Stockbridge Chief A [undecipherable] Long (Signed) H. [undecipherable]