Canadarago June 13^th 1793 Sir Since I wrote You last I have rec'd a letter from Capt. Brant and I am told by Mr. Bell who is a fine American who has resided in Niagara several months & who had the goodness to call on me this morning, informs me [strikethrough: that] a year able to what Capt. Brant wrote me that he has gone to meet the Lake Indians at the Huron Villages - and that a numerous & respectable number go to the treaty, he should go with them - & that he thinks peace will be established - Mr. Bell informed me that Col. McKee arrived at Niagara before he left there & by what he could learn was endeavoring to prevent the treaty going forward - I am also informed by the Seneka Chiefs who have been here & by [undecipherable] Jarket who is present, that [undecipherable] Butler has wrote a message from Lower Canada to be communicated to the Hostile [undecipherable] through the Six Nations but the purport I have not as yet been able to learn - The Seneka Chiefs seem to be [undecipherable] to have the United States [undecipherable] terms of peace with the Hostile [undecipherable] as it appears to [them it] might be accomplished - they have been invited to [undecipherable] with the Hostile Indians at their council on Lake Erie before they go to the treaty but they have been [undecipherable] by them [undecipherable] times and refuse to attend with them - I am Capt. Brant has lately set off to meet the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] at the Huron Villages which induces me to believe they have not set out for the treaty - Capt. Brant is contending with [undecipherable: Gov.] [undecipherable: Simcoe] respecting the title of his land on Grand River and says if the [undecipherable] persists in his impositions he will join some other people that will use him better - I have no doubt but Capt. Brant will use his influence for peace he is making some preparations to build on the land reserved to the United States along the Niagara Strait and by what I can learn is desirous to obtain a tract of land below the falls on this side the River - I am told this by Mr. [undecipherable: Stedman] who was with me - and who has [undecipherable] been with [undecipherable] as he [undecipherable] when he left here he should see you respecting getting a grant of the land where he lives which he told me you had [undecipherable] - I have been also told of late by other [undecipherable] it was Brant's object to obtain a piece of land on the reservation before noticed [undecipherable] it [undecipherable] be [undecipherable] - He has not written me a word respecting it but has said he should write me - Perhaps [undecipherable] troubling you to mention that things but it may be that some of them may be [undecipherable] [undecipherable] as people who are friendly to the States are willing to communicate every useful [undecipherable], yet it would be unwilling to have it received in general & it would [undecipherable] disadvantage to obtain it - Capt. [undecipherable: Abeel] remind me to [undecipherable] remind You that he mentioned to You respecting two of his Indians conveying [undecipherable] of Trenton down the Ohio for which he was to pay [undecipherable] and did not do it - this demand was not [undecipherable] The Six Nations are at present in peace and harmony - Mr. Parrish is now at Buffaloe Creek to receive, forward the [undecipherable] & [undecipherable] to the treaties [undecipherable] those [undecipherable]. [copy of a letter to Col. [undecipherable: Pickering] June 13^th 1793]