month, and doubtless his principal object was to attend the preparatory council of the Indians to be held at the rapids of the Miami, as mentioned by Colonel McKee. We know not when a conveyance of this letter will present, we shall embrace the first. We are &c B. Randolph T. Pickering. On the same day (May 21^st) The Commissioners sent the following message in writing by Henry to his father the Complanter, New Arrow, and the other Senaka Chiefs in their settlements. Brothers. — By your conference with General Wayne about sixty days ago, we find it was proposed that you should be at Niagara about this time, to meet the Commissioners of the United States, and go with them to the treaty to be held at Sandusky. We take this method to inform you of our arrival here, and that General Lincoln the other Commissioners, who went by the way of the Mohock river and Oswego is expected in a few days to join us. We have time to give you this information and to repeat the invitation to you to accompany us to the Treaty because it will not begin at Sandusky so soon as we expected. The Great Chief of the United States, had proposed the first of June (ten days hence) for the opening of the Treaty. But Colonel McKee writes that the Western Indians will not be able to assemble so soon, probably not till the last of June. We therefore in give you our opinion that if you arrive at Buffaloe Creek in twenty five days after this day on which we write to you, you will not be too late. By that time we hope to hear of your arrival, for we have great dependance on your assistance at the proposed Treaty. We remain your Friends and Brothers B. Randolph } Commissioners Written at Niagara.} N.B. Henry went as far as Cataragus Creeks, where learning that his father had left home and gone for Genesee, he delivered this message to runners to carry it to New Arrow. Saturday May 25^th 1793. This day General Lincoln and Company arrived in batteaux from Oswego. Mr. Jarred Dean Interpreter arrived the same day by land from Oneida. Sunday May 26^th 1793. The Commissioners receiving no intelligence concerning Mr. Wilson and another interpreter for the Delaware and Shawanese languages, and wanting a quantity of White Wampum, General Lincoln not having found any at New York or Albany, wrote the following letters to Pittsburg. Niagara 26^th May 1793 To Major Craig Pittsburg Sir, The Secretary at War informed us that he had written to Mr. William Wilson, and Mr. James Ranken of Pittsburg requesting