[Copy] To the Chiefs of the Six Nations Brothers. Two Runners were sent by us this Week with a Message dated the 14^th of the Month, to the Indian Nations assembled at the Rapids of the Maumee, our instructions to the Runners were to inform you, that they had such a Message from us, and to request you to assemble the Chiefs of the other Nations, and then deliver it to you altogether, from the report of the Runners we are apprehensive that they mistook our orders and that our Message has not been communicated to you, we therefore send a Copy of it N^o 1. We at the same time sent a Letter to Colonel McKee of which also we enclose a Copy N^o 2. Brothers — Our Runners returned hither this evening but a few hours before their arrival, two Wyandot Runners arrived here with a written answer, N^o 3 to our Speech of the 31^st of last Month, insisting upon the ohio as a boundary between the Indian Lands & those of the United States; and as we had already explicitly declared that we could not make the ohio the Boundary, the business of course was at an end, however we delivered a short Speech in writing to the same Runners who set off this Evening to return to the Council at the Rapids, we enclose a Copy of it also. N^o 4. Brothers Brothers, Being desirous that you should be fully informed of these transactions, we have sent you Copies thereof, which you may not otherwise obtain. Brothers! We came hither with a most sincere desire to make a Peace, that would be beneficial to the Indians as well as to the United States, and had such a Peace been accomplished, we felt a confidence that the justice & humanity of the United States, according to the present views of Indian Affairs, would not only have continued, but extended their beneficence to the Indian Nations and so far as it depended upon them would have rendered the Peace as lasting as the hills, and we should have been extremely happy in laying the foundation of so much good. We have now only to return home, and report our proceedings to the President of the United States. We shall sail with the first fair wind for Fort Erie. & Signed { B. Lincoln Beverley Randolph } Commissioners of the United States Timothy Pickering Mouth of the Detroit River August 16^th 1793 Endorsed: In Lord Dorchester to M^r Dundas N^o 2 of 25 Oct. 1793