Kanadesague 19 Jan^y 1792 within 38 miles of Big trees known as the [undecipherable: Genifer?] [marginalia in left margin: undecipherable] Sir I am [undecipherable] I took the Liberty of addressing you, by a hasty letter, but containing some necessary Information. I arrived here with the Oneida Chiefs the night before last. On my way from [undecipherable: Hanadafegee?] rec'd a message from the Farmer Brother (the Seneka Chief so called) acquainting me that he had seen the Runners, with Col: Pickering's [undecipherable] [undecipherable] speech & should reside at his hunting quarters within 2 miles of this place [undecipherable] upon which he asked me to send for him. I accordingly sent a Sleigh [undecipherable] yesterday morning to bring him in, also [undecipherable] they rec'd several [undecipherable] others of the Senecas [undecipherable] I [undecipherable] [undecipherable] meet me at [undecipherable] the house of Gen. Israel Chapin in Kanadesague, by the middle of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] would acquaint them with my business. The principle [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the peaceable Indians so soon as they all came [undecipherable] introduced to the Oneida Chief. I addressed them upon the Subject of my [undecipherable] with a summary of the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of the President of the United States, & the determination [undecipherable] of Congress to fulfill all their promises to the six Nations, & give them the [undecipherable] best practicable [undecipherable] evidence of [undecipherable] their disposition to be my Indians also [undecipherable] peace [undecipherable] of good [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] throughout their jurisdiction — I was particular upon their head, as I found it had been industriously propagated among the Buffaloes, [undecipherable: Stirs?], & all the settlements of the [undecipherable: Senifer?], that Congress did not regard any promises made to Indians, & that there was no depen-dence upon what Col. Pickering had said to them the last summer, & that they would [undecipherable] [undecipherable] at the [undecipherable] appointed [undecipherable] [undecipherable] have home been dispatched, because [undecipherable] traced [undecipherable] Black Snake [undecipherable] [undecipherable] their [undecipherable] them down, that [undecipherable] has endeavored to [undecipherable] prevent the Buffaloes going down to Congress, Great [undecipherable] has been [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Genesee [undecipherable] Farmers, Brother Obed [undecipherable] [undecipherable] promise Lieutenant [undecipherable] to Philadelphia — [undecipherable: Seven?] some of the Indians themselves have [undecipherable] dependent enough to prove, that such a reputable [undecipherable] delegation from the six Nations, will [undecipherable] fate with this western confederacy. At the first meeting of the Senecas [undecipherable] Chiefs, they appeared to be very shy of each other, after them on the point of Col. Pickering's speech in invitation for introductory speeches [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] speeches or [undecipherable], by Good [undecipherable], [undecipherable] replied upon — The [undecipherable] from the Farmer Brother [undecipherable] with great caution; & warmly — after this Good Peter gave me the hint [undecipherable], To bring forward a little of the most [undecipherable] animating Spirit, to drink the health of the President at [undecipherable] with [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] making they were [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] we [undecipherable] our [undecipherable] full [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Good Peter — [undecipherable] — making a [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] approves the [undecipherable] — the [undecipherable] appears [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] with the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] with great caution [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the change [undecipherable] [undecipherable] they [undecipherable] — that Col. Pickering [undecipherable] the time [undecipherable] effect [undecipherable] & without a [undecipherable] — To [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] but [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] understand [undecipherable] in this light, Therefore we [undecipherable] not [undecipherable] after [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] long time, it [undecipherable] from every [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] as to the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] situation in Col. Pickering [undecipherable] [undecipherable] rather [undecipherable] might [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] ten [undecipherable] The President of the [undecipherable] is a man, who [undecipherable] the great [undecipherable: Mask?] [undecipherable] — the means to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] a [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] who was [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] The [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] object is [undecipherable] Col: Pickering [undecipherable] — therefore he [undecipherable] the mean — [undecipherable] & [undecipherable] [undecipherable] The [undecipherable] it [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] in [undecipherable] after [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — The Farmer Brother [undecipherable] & gave me his word, that he would not return to [undecipherable] but immediately attend to the import of Col: Pickering's message & accompany the delegation of the six Nations to Congress. He then requested two things of me, To assist him, with [undecipherable] making back his family, as far as George, when he would leave [undecipherable] told his returns from Philadelphia, & then after our arrival [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] concern [undecipherable] This second settlements, [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] full Council — I [undecipherable] the disposition [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Congress [undecipherable] the Indians — particularly the [undecipherable] six Nations — This I agreed to his [undecipherable] request — which was much approved, of the Oneida Chief — I consider it as a matter of great importance to the peace [undecipherable] of this whole country, That the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] from the [undecipherable] to the seat of Government Delegation [undecipherable] — & the present critical juncture, will justify me in any additional expense, with which it may be attended [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] kept from [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] unless the six Nations are prevented a [undecipherable] [undecipherable] with this western [undecipherable] — there is great [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] believe the [undecipherable: Genesee?] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] in the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] by [undecipherable] [undecipherable] at [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Col. Pickering — I [undecipherable] present [undecipherable] [undecipherable] a Clerk — That I must present [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — I am [marginalia in right margin: undecipherable]