[Chippewa to our Brother] Brother We have now heard all the Objections you made yesterday in Consequence of our Claim to Lands in this State founded as we before hinted out to you on paper— Brothers firstly you say you then knew that the [undecipherable: Seven?] Nations has [undecipherable: every/many?] Claim on lands in this State but admitting that it was held in [undecipherable] in the year [undecipherable] with our Brother Governor Clinton— Brother— that was not the first time that we had sent Caba Lewis with some others of our Chiefs to Call a meeting on with you on this Occasion in order to lay our Claims before you [undecipherable] our Brother Governor — Clinton is well [undecipherable]— [undecipherable] — that we sent Caba Lewis with year 1790 to Call a meeting with you in order to talk over this [undecipherable] and have it Settled— Brothers— In the Year [undecipherable: Thirty?] we sent Caba Lewis and two with a our young Chiefs to [undecipherable] to Call this [undecipherable: Private?] meeting— But being a day or two to Late the [undecipherable: Assembly?] had broke up and our Business was not attended too— Brothers— then they returned back home and told us the reasons why our Business was not [undecipherable] to— then in the Course of that time after we had news Come to us that some [undecipherable] of your Indians was in dispute with there Brothers at the Ohio River and desired the Chiefs of the Seven Nation to go and try to [undecipherable: little/settle?] the dispute between Brothers the Virginians and there Brothers the Indians— this dispute [undecipherable: arising?] Caused us to come and a give you that we thought [undecipherable: proper?] let this Business to the Call from our Brothers from the Westward as we [undecipherable] knew that those depended on us and Gave by us for advice— Brothers— We then to K our pipes and went to try to find out where the dispute arose from and to try to [undecipherable: settle?] it between [strikethrough: them] the Brothers in dispute— arriving there found one of our Brothers that you are very well acquainted with who has been whispering with you as we find since— he then made this Business to stay in between you and us to prevent us from [undecipherable: discoursing?]— with each other— by by the way of letters and then he [undecipherable: counterfeited?] which your are drawing to Brothers as well [undecipherable: agony/among?] as your letters— Brother— those Gentlemen I we must Call them by Some [undecipherable] was the Chahokee who you just— [undecipherable: advised?] to in your objections to our Claim— yesterday as you thought them to be a just & people then to make Sale of [undecipherable] that did not belong to them— Brothers We think and are very [undecipherable: sure?] that if a poor people has the bad luck to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and Brothers to war which we must have, Great reason to Expect that the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] Is [undecipherable: loosing?] at lives and Spilling human Blood— that we look upon much [undecipherable] than money or lands— So that no one only Confident has done that we esteemed that people to have but a small [undecipherable: share?] of a most Principles in them— Brothers We Should be glad that you would fetch forward this Objection you say we [undecipherable] from as [undecipherable]— our Brothers we cannot find [undecipherable] such people— [undecipherable] they have we ever intruded or broke on [undecipherable] every lines or boundary belonging to every other Nation— what now— this Claim we have [undecipherable] before you Brothers [undecipherable] just— as soon as we have mentioned to you before to Convince your valued Brothers you Can Call all the Nations around us who are acquainted with the Brothers we have been before you and will let you know whether our Claim is just or not— Brother another reason why you object our Claim you [undecipherable] we want to take on us and to [undecipherable: protect?] them under the [undecipherable: French?] King— Brothers We [undecipherable: never?] want a [undecipherable: four?] provinces nor do we Run [undecipherable: about] a French or English King [undecipherable: owning?] Every Law in America before us there [undecipherable] Which we look upon that a question no one was objected against our Claim— God who Created us all made us on this land and will [undecipherable] our Judgment and an— but [undecipherable] Clarks authorization is yet to be done and Known by there [undecipherable] our names— Brothers how do you Expect that we Should [undecipherable] hand from— God has [undecipherable: made/gave?] us the Lands for our important Livings— Brother and Since the King of Great Britain never bounded to be the Lands along the West [undecipherable] Champlain— we then told him that we would not [undecipherable] it as we depend on our Lands for our Living— the King replied that he wants to Settle the White People on it— it being to [undecipherable] to what [undecipherable]— Brothers We then told him that he might Settle on his people on a many lands— we Likewise told him that when any hunting [undecipherable] to poor that we [undecipherable] our [undecipherable] by [undecipherable] them— [undecipherable] we call on those who were on our Land's for them [undecipherable: Assistance?]— Brothers on these [undecipherable] the King [undecipherable: settled?] our Land on Lake Champlain— this is all that Ever past between us and the King— Brothers then the King of France began this Favour of us— that was that he might [undecipherable] them [undecipherable] Privilege at [undecipherable: Court?] [undecipherable] at [undecipherable] him a butt to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] dies that he— [undecipherable] to Exchange with our Young Men for [undecipherable: Alleries?]