Canandaigua Aug 12^th 1794 [marginalia: undecipherable filing notations] Sir Your Letter of the 2^d ulti[mo] I have had the [undecipherable] to Peruse and also the money mentioned therein. I will make every N[e]ssary arrangement for the Treaty that is to be held in this place, and from the present appearance of the Six Nations I believe this is probably they will Comply with every thing that is Reasonable. I am this moment informed by an Indian from the westward that Cornplanter has had a Battle with the Indians in which the Indians Lost Shortly [undecipherable] men, and that the [undecipherable: Caughnawagas] are returning to [their country?] who having been active with the Hostile Indians, and the information [undecipherable] he [was] one of them that was wounded in the [undecipherable] is on his way home. I shall endeavor to do every thing in my power to Make the Indians quiet and remain at Home and the present appearance is such that it gives me [undecipherable] Confidence to report to You, in Contradiction to some [writers?] from Your Quarter that the Six Nations are [actually?] remaining at Home & have not Joined in the War with the Hostile Indians [against] the United States, Which [cause] may be attributed in a great measure [by?] the withdrawing from Presque Isle. And at the [time?] [undecipherable] is from to Commence I hope and believe that those [undecipherable] will be removed and more [Security?] will [then?] be [rendered?] [to the?] frontiers. [Endorsement: Canandaigua Aug 12 1794]