Pickering informs Knox that Good Peter handed him a speech made to the Oneidas by Congress or the Board of War in September 1781. According to the Reverend Samuel Kirkland, Good Peter and his friend Chief Skenandoah [both of whom are present at the conference in Philadelphia], say they have not received their rewards. During the Revolution, Good Peter and Skenandoah were sent to Niagara by the Indian Commissioner for the Northern Department where they were subsequently imprisoned, and did not return home until the end of the war. Kirkland says that as compensation they each want a yoke of oxen, a plough, and $60 cash.