[Page 1 is an archival "Illegible Text" placeholder. Page 5 is an archival "Missing Page/s" placeholder. The following transcribes the readable document pages.] [undecipherable] Reply of the Six Nations [at] / Buffaloe Creek on the 4^th of Sept^r 1793 to a Speech [undecipherable] / [undecipherable] to the United States / by Got [undecipherable] on the 10^th [undecipherable], as Interpreted by / [Jasper?] Parrish one of the Interpreters for the United States [Ehave?] Sky [undecipherable] spoke as follows [Grandchildren]: We are happy to see that you are [safe?] / [safe?] at our council fire & that you have been [preserved?] / by the great Spirit in good health. Colonel Butler: We are also very happy to see you at / our council fire as [representing?] the King [Eagle?] [undecipherable] their [father?] as follows — Brothers: [undecipherable] of the United States [listen?] to what we are / going to say to you — [undecipherable] acknowledge the King [undecipherable]: We are very happy to see you [undecipherable] Butler & / [Got?] [Captain?] sitting side by side within this house / of hearing of what we have to say — We ought / to do no business but what is done open [and?] / above board Brothers of the United States make your mind [up?] / on account of the long time your [faithful?] [Speech?] / has been under our consideration — When we / received it on [this?] year, it was a [subject?] of / importance, & required some time to be [understood?] [other?]: The answer you have brought us as well as / to what we are [capable?], which was the reason for / long delay — the [subject?] would have been done / with expedition [that?] the United States agreed / to our proposals. We would then have called / our [appointed?] and [consented?] to [arrange?] the / places you proposed for meeting as a — Brother: It is not now in our power, to accept your / invitation — [Provided?] we were to go you / could conduct the [subject?] as your [?] the [?] / Brother. This has been the case at all the / Treaties held from time to time by your [Government?] Brother: At the first Treaty held after the conclusion of the / War ([since?] you & [Great?] [Britain?]) at [Fort?] [undecipherable] / [undecipherable], your [Commissioners?] conducted the [subject?] in / it to [?] several [undecipherable] — the [problem?] [of?] / [undecipherable] & they confirmed it. [After?] this they [found?] / out that our Country was ceded to them by the / King — This [caused?] too [large?] to be [?] / them, & [prevented?] them from [ever?] [giving?] [reply?] / to this country — [?] the [?] out of the [debt?] / [suggest?] to [?] this Harmony were [?] [?] held / but that we would get no further [protection?] from / Great Britton. This has ever been held out to / us by the Commissioners from [League?] — at all the / Treaties held with us since the Peace — at [?] / [Niagara?], at [Rocky?] [River?] and [every?] / meeting held the idea was [?] the [same?] Brothers: This has been the case from time [to time?] / Peace has not taken place, [though?] [undecipherable] / held up those ideas, owing to which much [mischief?] / [has?] been done to the [settlements] — Brothers: We the Six Nations have been [exerting?] ourselves / to keep Peace since the coming of the [last?] — / we think it would be best for [?] [?]. We / [advised?] the [Confederation?] [Nations?] to [agree?] in / talking about half way between us & the United / States, in order that such steps [might?] be / taken as would bring about a Peace — this / request was made, and [Congress?] [appointed?] / Commissioners to meet us at [Buffaloe?] / which we agreed to, on [Boundary?], however the / [proposal?] by us, and refused by [Governor?] [undecipherable] / your [Commissioners?] — The [Wyandotts?], a few / [Delawares?] and some others, met the Commissioners / [though?] not authorized, and confirmed the lines / of what was not their [property?], but a [common?] / to all Nations Brothers: This idea was [all?] held out at our Council at / Lower [Sandusky?], held for the purpose of [coming?] / our [?], and to adopt measures that would / be for the general [?] of our Indian Nations [capable?] / of our own [choosing?] — Owing to the [steps?] taken / by us, the United States held out that when we / went to the Westward to transact our [friendly?] / [subject?], that we went with an intention of [taking?] / an active part in the trouble [collecting?] [between?] / them & our Western Brothers — The [undecipherable] [places?] and [helps?] this [should?] [state?] be [causing?] / our [notification?] [method?] of [accomplishing?] [these?] Brothers: We have done every thing, patiently for this long / time past, we have done every thing we could / [capably?] do with the welfare of our nations / in general — [Notwithstanding?] the many [?] / [steps?] that has been taken [of?] us by individuals / in doing purchases from us the Six Nations, [that?] / to an extent [enough?] [towards?] as [to go?] more to / [other?] notice, if we in any way been [accepted?] / we make no more [easy?] — this is the case / to this present day — Our [Patience?] is now / [extinct?] [even?] with you are the difficulties we / [other?] [sides?] that we cannot at present / keep from our [seals?] — [others?] your [council?] at / [Niagara?] a [middle?] to your invitation in / the [boundaries?] has [prompted?] out and there is a [?] / on [obtaining?] of [?] United States [doing?] / land [out?] of that [race?] — the troubles that are / here [?] by the United States can be so [?] / we [go?] [if?] you be [?] [?] — [?] with [?] Brothers: We are of the same opinion with the People / of the United States [?] [?] your [numerous?] [as?] / [independent?] [People?] — We as the [original?] / [inhabitants?] of this Country & [Sovereign?] of the [land?] / look upon ourselves as equally independent [and?] / as any Other Nation or [Nations?] — This Country is / good to us by the Great Spirit above; we wish / to [keep?] it and have on our [?] — but / [neither?] [?] [how?] we have [failed?] and [?] Brothers: The great exertions we have made for this / [number?] of years to accomplish a Peace [?] / have not [able?] to [obtain?] it — our [patience?] / as we have already said is exhausted and we / are discouraged from [persevering?] any longer. / We therefore throw ourselves under the [protection?] / of the great Spirit above who we hope will / [order?] all things for the best — We have / [?] you our [patience?] is worn out — but [not?] / so far, but [that?] we wish for Peace and [whenever?] / [thereon?] [Person?] comes here [as?] that we hear / that [Blessing?] [send?] (Peace) we Shall pay / attention to it — [See?] the Belt [was?] [returned?] [undecipherable] that was [delivered?] [by?] the [undecipherable] Speech [from?] [undecipherable] — [written on verso:] [undecipherable: probable reading — Secretary of War notation, October 21, 1793, or similar administrative endorsement]