N^o 37. To Major Gen^l Knox Sec^y of war Legion Ville 28 Dec 1792 Sir, I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of yours of the 13th instant, and agreeably to your wishes have reiterated my invitation to the Cornplanter & New Arrow to repair to Philadelphia; as you will see by my answer to the speech of those Chiefs, which I now have the honor to enclose you, authenticated upon oath by M^r Rosecrantz, who was accompanied by the nephew of the Cornplanter to this place. Its more than probable that you have seen him with the Corn planter in Phil^a. he appears to be a fellow of observation & attended the treaty of the hostile Indians at Au Glaize with his uncle & the other Chiefs of the Six Nations. It is his decided opinion that the hostile Indians will not consent to a peace so long as a white man continues upon this side of the Ohio unless they meet with some severe disaster. Nor does he think that they, the actual hostile Indians, meant a cessation of hostilities until after the proposed treaty in the Spring or when the leaves are out. and that Peace would then depend upon the Americans ceding to the south and surrendering up all the lands & possessions on the north side of the Ohio river to the Indians. You have now before you what passed at the Grand Council held at Au Claire, with the foregoing opinion or explanation of one of the young Chiefs who was