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It being agreed at the rapids that we should come and
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meet the Commissioners [undecipherable] Father's presence, we [retrieve?] [undecipherable]
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thanks to the great
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"It being agreed at the rapids that we should come and
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meet the Commissioners in our Father's presence, we return our
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thanks to the great Spirit for seeing your Excellency well this day.
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Our intention, and business as peaceable, and our intention is to do
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what is right and just. We are all of one mind and Wished your
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Excellency to be present."
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A ball of Wampum.
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His excellency in reply said
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"He was happy to see them well, and as the commissi-
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oners expressed these wordes * to count the Indians in his presence
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he should be glad to hear what they had to say."
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The belt returned.
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*  The Commissioners expressed no such thing they merely
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consented to the measure because it was the <u>wish</u> of the <u>Indians</u>.
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See the proceedings of July 5<sup><u>th</u></sup>.
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Note - This Copy of the address to, and answer from the Governor was received from his Secretary. Major Littlehales.
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At Niagara 11<sup><u>th</u></sup> July 1793
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The Commissioners wrote the following letters to the
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President and Secretary of War, and sent them off by Joseph
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Parish expresss.
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Letter to General Knox.
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Niagara 10<sup><u>th</u></sup> July 1793.
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The enclosed extract from our Journal will account for our being here. We think the coming of the deputation from
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the