Done at Captain Elliotts at the mouth of Detroit River the 16^th day of August 1793. B: Lincoln, B: Randolph, } Commissioners of the T: Pickering. } United States. The next morning (Saturday August 17^th) The Commissioners sent by their own runners (being one Onandage and two Oneidas,) the following letter and the paper therein mentioned to the chiefs of the Six Nations. To the Chiefs of the Six Nations. Brothers. Two runners were sent by us this Week with a message dated the 14^th of this month, to the Indian Nations assembled at the Rapids of the Miami. Our instructions to the Runners were to inform you that they had such a message from us, and to request you to assemble the Chiefs of the other nations, and there deliver it to you all together. From the report of the Runners, we are apprehensive that they mistook our orders, and that our message had not been communicated to you. We therefore now send you a copy of it N^o 4. We at the same time sent a letter to Colonel McKee of which also we inclose a Copy, N^o 2. Brothers. Our runners returned hither this evening; but a few hours before their arrival, two Wyandots Runners arrived with a written answer N^o 3. to our speech of the 31^st of last month, insisting on the Ohio as the boundary between the Indian lands and those of the United States. As we had already explicitly declared that we could not make the Ohio the boundary; the business, of course, was at an end. However we delivered a short speech in writing to the same runners, who set off this evening to return to the camp at the Rapids. We enclose a copy of it. N^o 4. Brothers, Being desirous that you should be fully informed of these transactions, we have sent you copies thereof which you may not otherwise obtain. Brothers. We came hither with the most sincere desires to make a peace that would be beneficial to the Indians as well as to the United States according to their present views of Indian Affairs, would not only have continued but extended their beneficence to the Indian nations, and so far as it depended on them have rendered the peace as lasting as the hills. And we should have been extremely happy in laying the foundation of much good. We have only to return home and report our proceedings to the President of the United States. We shall sail with the first fair Wind for Fort Erie. Mouth of Detroit River 16^th August 1793. B: Lincoln, B: Randolph, } Commissioners of T: Pickering. } the United States. Friday August 23^d 1793. This morning we arrived at Fort Erie, and dispatched the following letters. Letter to Major Craig Deputy Quarter Master Pittsburg. N^o 1. Fort Erie 23^d. August 1793. Sir, Inclosed are two letters to Major General Wayne which