[Reference: Fo 5/9 p 252 - 258] [PUBLIC RECORDS OFFICE] [undecipherable] [Ld, Edmund Burke, Vicar Gen. of [undecipherable], [undecipherable] [undecipherable] India[undecipherable]] [undecipherable notation] My dear Children in God, the Hurons of Sandusky. He [undecipherable] tell you my being on the way to visit you, and [the state of] religion in your Village, [nothing] but the [undecipherable] could hinder, my being among you, as I have been already your Father of Detroit. [Do] know that I have [great] pain in seeing you this [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] and a I love all my children as [the] Christ particularly love the Hurons as they have always been good Christians and obedient children to God and to his Church Your ancient Father the Bishop of Quebec has charged me to go and visit you all and to give them a faithful [undecipherable: account?] of your conduct, as he loves you and always [undecipherable] to cherish you in his heart and [undecipherable] cannot come himself, he has properly [undecipherable] to [undecipherable: assemble?] you in [one?] village as this Shepherd [undecipherable: assembles?] his flock more yet, to have care you and to conduct you to Heaven in the manner your confident Father conducted your ancestors in preference to all other nations. For this purpose my children you must come near your Brother of [undecipherable: Detroit?] so that I may have as small cabin to live promised me and so have your [undecipherable: Brothers?] [undecipherable: Ottawas?] also you will follow those examples for to separate yourself from your Brothers will be your ruin without resource. I [undecipherable] on that going to your place to [undecipherable]; to that that when you will have no more among you may do foolish things to separate from your Brothers and in consequence [undecipherable: ruin?] I was at your village of Detroit when your [undecipherable: Huron] [undecipherable] arrived who to my great astonishment [undecipherable] in your name, that you would not hearken to your chiefs and your old Councillors, who [undecipherable] of you to come and live with them... What will you then hearken to strangers? men who are not of your blood nor of your religion, who only look to their own [undecipherable: interest?] and your ruin, rather than your chiefs and your brothers! do you not know that your nation ought to be all assembled together, to render it respectable as it [undecipherable: always?] has been! do you not see that those men who wish to [undecipherable: engage?] you to [undecipherable: give?] away your lands to your enemies only look to have a good share themselves! dont hearken to them my children they are not of your blood nor of your religion nor for your interest. I have also heard that you