Richard Villes Speech
Document 1795Assurance that the Miami Nation supports peace by representative Richard Villes.
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which is to say by bringing you the Hatchet — a day that [undecipherable] you back to happiness, to [undecipherable] and [undecipherable].
Miyanga Bothig
Speaks to you [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] your [undecipherable] faithfully received then those Chains in full very often and you will hold [undecipherable] with our former [undecipherable] bringing it to my people in your [undecipherable] order [undecipherable] they give hopes shall be [undecipherable] to you [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] on the 17th.
Miyanga Bothig, the Village Chiefs
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Miyanga Bothig
In the [undecipherable] I give you [undecipherable] have [undecipherable] in [undecipherable] of the Friendly [undecipherable] in the mark of [undecipherable] that the [undecipherable] these instances what will the following [undecipherable] on each [undecipherable] has often [undecipherable] October by the many conclusions to the Speech of the 17th.
Miyanga Bothig
Since the [undecipherable] is [undecipherable] in [undecipherable] instances [undecipherable] your [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] may be in [undecipherable] consequences may be fully [undecipherable] with the times and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to be [undecipherable] districts. Each [undecipherable] receive the Key from [undecipherable] when [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] and in which [undecipherable] your [undecipherable] Chiefs hold [undecipherable] the Chippewas, the [undecipherable] Miamis [undecipherable] and Bothig.
Miyanga Bothig
[undecipherable] to be [undecipherable] further you [undecipherable] [undecipherable] it is [undecipherable] on the 17th of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for [undecipherable] many [undecipherable] from that day, and to all the [undecipherable] and there above [undecipherable] — I have nothing else to say [undecipherable] that we [undecipherable] a duty [undecipherable] to the [undecipherable] troops, and a proof that the great [undecipherable] will appear in upholding the [undecipherable] things by [undecipherable] this is all the records [undecipherable].
Anthony Wayne
Preliminary Articles entered into at [undecipherable] of government, where his Excellency Anthony Wayne, [undecipherable] General & Commander in Chief of the Legion [undecipherable] Commanding, the [undecipherable] the British [undecipherable] Direction, for [undecipherable] a permanent Peace with the [undecipherable] Chiefs [undecipherable] of the Ohio — in company with the [undecipherable] Chiefs of the Chippewas, Ottawas [undecipherable], Delawares, and [undecipherable] on the other part.
[seal]
[undecipherable] of the Indians or [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] if [undecipherable] [undecipherable] or any other nation [undecipherable] willing to [undecipherable] these matters [undecipherable] any [undecipherable] or [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] 17th 1795 to permit the [undecipherable].
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[undecipherable] of any instrument or [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] it shall come to the knowledge of the officers [undecipherable] Indians or other of their [undecipherable] having [undecipherable] to give immediately notice hereto to the Commanders in Chief, or to all Officers Commanding the Troops of the United States [undecipherable] at the nearest post. nor deny any Indian with both [undecipherable] [undecipherable] any favor of the Troops in [undecipherable] of the said United States [undecipherable] a just for their Country they once [undecipherable] to prevent the works and in [undecipherable] manner, from [undecipherable] any attempt, to Officers Commanding the Troops of the United States at the nearest post, as soon as [undecipherable] that the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] come in conflict between him and the United States — and when however the Commanders in Chief and all Officers Acting under the Great, shall forbid the said former Indians of any harm that may be [undecipherable] against these United States, whoever the Commander in Chief and all Officers acting under the Great, shall prohibit the said [undecipherable] Indians of any harm and these knowledge, and so as to their Powers to hinder or forbid the same that the friendship between them may be uninterrupted.
Done at Greenville, the Main Leader of the Board, Elder Lygia, this 8th day of January in the year of our Lord. And the said [undecipherable] Demands I hereby hold the Himself among the Parties hereto under Hospitality as their Names and Titles.
In presence of — Anthony Wayne
John Stone — Matchipinakedeck — his mark — $[undecipherable]
[undecipherable] Lynum — Simanakinak — his mark — do
N. Dantrack — Chicklaw — do
[undecipherable] Writing — Nangiefon — his mark — do
Bill Living alias a name — Nacholan — do
[undecipherable] — Matschana — do
Captain [undecipherable] Lydigun — Catarachio — do
James [undecipherable] — his mark — do
Leguyn at Lydigun — Netowa 18th — do
George [undecipherable] — Rahetopachehaw — do
[undecipherable] Lieutenant Artillery — Kahoan — $[undecipherable]
William [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Infantry — do
Wm. [undecipherable] Artillery —
No. [undecipherable] —
A Second Little Speech, a Miamie Chief, delivered 26 January — 1793
Elder Brother:
I have written Anthony and Adam that the confidence we can now at the present you, or are, and give hopes of gladness, and it has given us great [undecipherable] are with [undecipherable] with you as Brothers, we now tell you that it is not [undecipherable] to the [undecipherable].
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Elder Brother:
Know the [undecipherable] I have well [undecipherable] and the [undecipherable] in the [undecipherable] to the [undecipherable] in order to take the [undecipherable] have and to [undecipherable] a [undecipherable] we well [undecipherable] persons which [undecipherable] and shall not [undecipherable].
Elder Brother:
We are fully [undecipherable] of the sincerity and sincerity of thy service, the [undecipherable] Adam and Man and we are aware that the Elder [undecipherable] it may be full of [undecipherable]. [undecipherable] to complete.
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On the Seventh of February, 1793, Elder Jacket and [undecipherable] Shawnee Chiefs, with a party of Blue Nation, and Otcherbay, Onquad Quang, [undecipherable] King's Party of Delaware Service at Greenville.
Summary of Speeches delivered by Elder Jacket and [undecipherable], the Shawnee Chiefs and [undecipherable] Delaware Chiefs to a Major General in Legions on the 7th February 1793 —
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Elder Brother:
This day we have brought with us a Copy of your Speech to the [undecipherable] of the 7th of [undecipherable] with a Story of [undecipherable] — as soon as we arrived it is set out for this town, in order to give you notice to know whether of a your Grant Elder speech, if it is not well, to have it [undecipherable] can offer these Arguments, presents the Species [?Transcripts?] [which] they are [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] of all written that of the 17th of November, 12th of August and 13th of [undecipherable].
Elder Jacket was another — Elder Brother — The Chief [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the Shawnee Chiefs — and [undecipherable] presented the Shawnee's demands of Williams and it is said by the Chiefs as [undecipherable] United that [Indians now speak to you on behalf of the] others — the men were [undecipherable] here to the man Agents that the following they are pleased to set to.
Elder Brother:
To give you Care and about we have and we pray you in procuring the Grand front of General Washington & from us also — Your Speeches have been very long, and [undecipherable] before these — the now perfectly understood you, and all in our [undecipherable], that his [undecipherable] is these chiefs of [undecipherable] Shawnees to this day.
Elder Brother: [undecipherable] grand part for bringing us together this day, as from the [undecipherable] we had the opportunity — as being in no [undecipherable] to have [undecipherable] from here you, and should be as it helps to see the [undecipherable] of their [undecipherable] — The next thing of this [undecipherable] is a [undecipherable] from my [undecipherable], these talks [undecipherable] by the house, I will no longer [undecipherable] a man here, I am aware I am now following to be talking to [undecipherable] in these [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] the same house, the Brethren should talk with Brethren upon all occasions.
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Elder Brother, as to Delaware Chief commonly calls the Grand [undecipherable] bring them more and use. Elder Brother, I wish it down with your [undecipherable] on behalf of sincerity, and provide a choice of Company.
[undecipherable] Speech of [undecipherable] 8th February —
Elder Father: I am given to see you again more clearly and think the great [undecipherable] for [undecipherable] of view, at his time. The Delaware have [undecipherable] you on an [undecipherable] of your shelter in which you acknowledged you and offered to us its [undecipherable]. [undecipherable]. [undecipherable] to live, I have got no [undecipherable]. To say any thing upon the [undecipherable] and success.
Elder Brother: [undecipherable] there have been generally of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] that the British and [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] so that their [undecipherable] by their [undecipherable] they are also going of [undecipherable] — but there are [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] and the great share for the [undecipherable] and always [undecipherable] — you make not [undecipherable] people [undecipherable] ourselves of [undecipherable]. [undecipherable] set any large [undecipherable] to make you mean you next to [undecipherable] for their life elsewhere, and to [undecipherable] for the [undecipherable] — to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the measures to themselves [undecipherable].
Elder Brother: I must inform you that there calls us an [undecipherable] now [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] I allow the [undecipherable]. The great [undecipherable] Shepherd is not when the persons in here [undecipherable] in friendship, and then together. This [undecipherable] of this [undecipherable] is a [undecipherable] from my [undecipherable], these talks [undecipherable] by the house, I will no longer [undecipherable] a man here, I am aware; I am now [undecipherable] to be talking to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] in these occasions, and the same house, the Brethren should talk with Brethren upon all occasions.
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Elder Brother: When [undecipherable] now called Elder [undecipherable] [undecipherable] further [undecipherable] here, he is prepared to [undecipherable] the Americans in the spring — that he would now go to scare the States on his house, and would [undecipherable] to this [undecipherable] to and from this — now [undecipherable] [undecipherable] but the fifteen [undecipherable] had to say, some manner what they [undecipherable] to or that he would [undecipherable] to us again in the spring, and this is all the dangers of the Americans, and show [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] of [undecipherable].
Elder Brother: I must present you that there calls us a [undecipherable] now [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] I allow the [undecipherable] — The great [undecipherable] Shepherd is not when the persons in here [undecipherable] in friendship and here together. This [undecipherable] of this [undecipherable] is a [undecipherable] from my [undecipherable], these talks [undecipherable] by the house, I will no longer [undecipherable] to talk here — I am aware; I am now [undecipherable] to be talking to [undecipherable] in these [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] the same [undecipherable] the Brethren should talk with Brethren upon all occasions.
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Type
Document
Description
Assurance that the Miami Nation supports peace by representative Richard Villes.
Date
12/29/1795
Author
Repository
Collection
Document number
1795012290101
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26
Notable persons
John Williams
Richard Villes

