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we consider ourselves free to make any bargain or ???? of lands whenever and to whomever we please. If the White people as you say made a treaty that none of them but the King should purchase of us and that he has given that right to the United States, it is an affair which concerns you and him and not us, we have never parted with such a power.

    Brothers.  At our General Council held at the ????? last fall we agreed to meet Commissioners from t he United States for the purpose of restoring peace, provided they consented to acknowledge and confirm our boundary line to be the Ohio.  And we determined not to meet you until you gave us satisfaction on that point.  That is the reason we have not met.

    We desire you to consider Brothers that our only demand is the peaceable possession of a small part of our once great country.  Look back and review the lands from where we have been driven to this spot.  We can retreat no farther because the Country behind hardly affords food for its present inhabitants.  And we have therefore resolved to leave our ???? in this small space to which we are now confined.

    Brothers.  We shall be persuaded that you mean to do us justice if you agree that the Ohio shall remain the boundary line between us.  If you consent thereto, our meeting will be altogether unnecessary.  This is the great point which we hoped would have bee explained before you left your homes as our message last fall was principally directed to obtain that information.

    Done in General Council at the foot of Miami Rapids the 13th day of August 1793.

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