Agreement to Peace Talks at Time Appointed by Indian Tribes
Document 1795Notification of acceptance to peace talks between several tribes and the United States. Notes on 22nd February the Wayandots, by Chief Middle Sky, signed the Preliminary Articles for peace.
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February 11th 1795. Preliminary articles assented to their nation: give us the Title of the [undecipherable] Sachem[undecipherable] [undecipherable] were signed by Wright, we [undecipherable] Jefferson[undecipherable] & [undecipherable] communicate on the hand of the Treasury [undecipherable] Philadelphia for the [undecipherable] of accounting for the [undecipherable] —
On the [undecipherable] of February 1795 — [undecipherable] treaty of the [undecipherable] of February as the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] from [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] performance —
Brothers,
We are here now agreeable this day, which the great Above has Appointed for us all — they to, or great whites.
Brothers —
We now [undecipherable] has from great Eyes sees you [undecipherable]
Give that you may have see us since to, what us from [undecipherable] prosperity say — and they — with company
Brothers
[undecipherable] on the most plain when great Abroad now yet your hearts to its Proper Position: this to [undecipherable] to Inhabit at forest, where we have a home — this is not in the last sovereignty, that you may believe in your Three Savage White [undecipherable]
Brothers —
If you are now that we have written to the States from great Eyes [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] at your [undecipherable] of Lights — [undecipherable] or more apart a whole host of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — Your country Brothers Friends to the [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] has already still spreading you — [undecipherable] — Your can have [undecipherable] your advice already here you [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] a trading [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the people, after the nearest [undecipherable] of Credits — are [undecipherable] in every [undecipherable] before you [undecipherable] we have here, You have also [undecipherable] to as not that we could agree [undecipherable] [undecipherable] or another such place — with its [undecipherable] fifteen [undecipherable] [undecipherable] along Societies — are so and [undecipherable] — no silver [undecipherable] than our [undecipherable] — it appears that [undecipherable] along [undecipherable] — no [undecipherable] [undecipherable] that each [undecipherable] — you can do more [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — God all the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — and so we have [undecipherable] to you from — the [undecipherable] presents — and Established [undecipherable] which [undecipherable] which since you by the [undecipherable] — has [undecipherable] taken from [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] — we must they say [undecipherable] in case — and it is to be happy that there and so [undecipherable] sense up us more —
Brothers —
By your [undecipherable] to us by great [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] to serve and meet together with the Brothers — the [undecipherable] Clans or [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] — the first of letting a general treaty sell you, but I see more [undecipherable] — Heavens and [undecipherable] that by year here who you know — after new first to see us what any and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
[please]
J. Williams Joseph [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] for the Sachimens [undecipherable]
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Brothers
[undecipherable] About [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] 1st January 1795
Listen — to tell you on the [undecipherable] Subjects — that we have something more to say — whereby you have permittance to hear the ours speak again — to the following [undecipherable] which we Both you — with some [undecipherable] following the blame for Falling of General Stamp for Settling all matters of Differences Between [undecipherable] the States of America — thus to business — we now have to inform you — that it is with the greatest [undecipherable], or we now agree to the terms [undecipherable] — Between your [undecipherable] — the Referred treaties [undecipherable] and it is on Second books and issues that every thing will go on — [undecipherable] termination — and what his papers —
[Signed]
J. Williams Joseph [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] for the Sachimens [undecipherable]
[Address line:] [undecipherable] on the [undecipherable] February the [undecipherable] were [undecipherable] their [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] that's [undecipherable] to the [undecipherable] the same actions —
Letters from Elias Burke — The British Union Counsel of Upper Canada to the Marquette of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — Communicated to Dr Williams, sir —
My Dear Children in [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] the Treaty of [undecipherable]
the them with tell you of any thing in the way to assist you — and the State of [undecipherable] in your Valleys — Selling that the Children under below, or [undecipherable] Living — among you — as State or being in Society at your Father of [undecipherable] — and so power — that that great Father is [undecipherable] it to their [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] — as and they — as a Step — at my Children in School [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] Spiritually from the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] from [undecipherable] that [undecipherable] — the [undecipherable] is [undecipherable] — you do not fail to [undecipherable] your Children to [undecipherable] — this — [undecipherable] has [undecipherable] — it will [undecipherable] to go and see you all and if you have a perfect occasion as [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — all [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — and [undecipherable] wishes to Consult you in the next case as to [undecipherable] him [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] wish to [undecipherable] to tell you at the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] to first in an [undecipherable] — even one of you — to counsel you to [undecipherable] — or the present great [undecipherable] [undecipherable] consents — general Annuities in performance to all other Nations — For the purpose my Children you must come your Children of [undecipherable] or that — if any have a small Child to be living from among you, myself — out of [undecipherable] — the wait [undecipherable] of all his fifteen [undecipherable] — My [undecipherable] Children but much better since you will be together, rather than to have unpleased to you — [undecipherable] — I have been told [undecipherable] hard to tell the people that that — it seems to many you — who are mothers of your Allies — your great Nations — and are here delayed letters from Elias Burke — and has a Grandson from John Daly — and your [undecipherable] — and so [undecipherable] — and do he [undecipherable] — you are once given your Father [undecipherable] — Good — that they made you great [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — in that they practice their own [undecipherable] — and a [undecipherable] which they can [undecipherable] of making — of your [undecipherable] — and to listen to those my other Children — See the Fathers' which you [undecipherable] — Travels in your hearing & which has them — [undecipherable] to the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] listen to the Brothers, and the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] be [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — See that you they can't [undecipherable] — She sent [undecipherable] Family or [undecipherable] of your [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] they have been you until [undecipherable]
Type
Letter Signed
Description
Notification of acceptance to peace talks between several tribes and the United States. Notes on 22nd February the Wayandots, by Chief Middle Sky, signed the Preliminary Articles for peace.
Date
02/21/1795
Author
Sent from
Greeneville Head Quarters
Repository
Collection
Document number
1795022190001
Page start
30
Notable persons
Wayandots
J. Williams
Agent
Sachems
Indians
Nations
tribes
Chief Middle Sky
brothers
Notable locations
Sandusky
Greenville
United States
Notable items
preliminary articles
peace
agreement

