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Philadelphia August 16th 1791 Sir In addition to the information given in my report of the proceedings at the late treaty with the Six nations of Indians, relative to the land assigned by the Seneka Nation to the Children of one of their women by Ebenezer Allan - and to the Cayuga reservation leased to John Richardson for twenty years - it may be expedient for me to mention more particularly, the grounds and inducements to a public ratification of both at that [?]. It appeared to be understood by the Senekas that [?] Morris & Ogden, as the grantees of Massachusetts, had the right of pre-emption of all their lands. But at the same time there existed