[Answer to a number of letters from General Wayne, to the Missionaries sent by the Corresponding [undecipherable], and the Traders, to the Colonel commanding the Fort at the Miamis Villages] Elder Brethren, In consideration of the long time that our eyes have been shut, and that we have always been deceived [undecipherable] a Serpent resembling the English, but not angry with the fire and [undecipherable] accepting of the Situation, we are as many as to become [undecipherable] per it for at some, as we [undecipherable] our own Children the Savage, who carries the Hatchet, as we have learnt the misfortune if we are resolved to suffer from his own hand, our Lord [undecipherable] this paper, and thus shall cause that [undecipherable] over our eyes [undecipherable] satisfied, and we shall then Elder Brethren, Most [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] that at some of the Frontiers, our Brethren, God gives us you, and we have in showing of the world, and in explaining the equity of [undecipherable] sentiments because us, and in an investigation [undecipherable] in the [undecipherable] Frontiers which appears [undecipherable] you have very truly [undecipherable] the Eternal, the [undecipherable], and the [undecipherable], it has given us so much pleasure that we seem to see you whilst we are [undecipherable], and we did not hesitate nor [undecipherable] to follow not [undecipherable] to the [undecipherable]. We prefer there [undecipherable] and more than one [undecipherable] but as that are the only places beyond [undecipherable] what [undecipherable] their [undecipherable] while it is they [undecipherable] to see that and the beginnings of those taught, in and to better very more [undecipherable], to those that [undecipherable] therefore to [undecipherable] who always [undecipherable] our [undecipherable], and to [undecipherable] themselves [undecipherable] come and take you by the hand. Elder Brethren. Having heard from your letter what your wishes are, We the [Ohio?] new Village [undecipherable], that [undecipherable] the nearest to you, and some [undecipherable] over who would not have a pass [undecipherable]. Many [undecipherable] may have our same [Submission?] in [Ohio?], and the same [undecipherable] had [undecipherable] honor, but [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] per [undecipherable] would add the [undecipherable], in the many [undecipherable] that then will show us all our Brethren [undecipherable], here in our address, and this [undecipherable] common [undecipherable] all records, will receive, to come and take [undecipherable] by the house. We [undecipherable] propose to go in as a Company with [Frontiersmen?], we are always within home very [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to [undecipherable], wait to us — we greet [undecipherable] with hearts full of affection which [undecipherable] will take from paper. Elder Brethren. [The] has always seen that [undecipherable] have never seen the [Miamis?] [undecipherable]. [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] and the [undecipherable] are [undecipherable] who in our own [undecipherable]. The reason is [undecipherable] are Elder and [undecipherable] Village could not give us in [undecipherable] and we request them, and the [undecipherable] of us all of you [undecipherable]. Elder Brethren. [undecipherable] [undecipherable] do to unite the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] all things and the rules and [undecipherable] the wishes of men, for before [undecipherable] [undecipherable] with their good attention and pack us in the right way. 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Is it [undecipherable] existing never fully that it shall what remain fresh in our memory. Elder Brethren. The [undecipherable] will show you, the real [undecipherable] of us one and the same [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and again [undecipherable] never has had any words, and they would [undecipherable] not be [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable]. And the [undecipherable] you [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and you [undecipherable] have knowledge of what he [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] in what we have [undecipherable]. Elder Brethren — We think that you must be fully sensible of the great [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] what the [undecipherable] you [undecipherable] not afford us. Our [undecipherable] that remain [undecipherable] as of [undecipherable] with [undecipherable] and we are [undecipherable] to say, that we came from villages of [undecipherable] [undecipherable], and our [undecipherable] with the daily [undecipherable] of candour and sincerity, the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] health — and the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] do not [undecipherable] that we [undecipherable] here with [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — we greet him with hearts full of affection which [undecipherable] will tell from paper. Elder Brethren [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] that we were very glad to [know?] that the [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] had seen [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable], and that the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]. 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