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Done at Captain Elliotts at the mouth of Detroit River the 16th day of August 1793. B: Lincoln,} B. Randolph,} Commifsioners [Commissioners] of the United States. T. Pickering.}

The next morning (Saturday, August 17th) The Commifsioner [commissioners] sent by their own runners (being one Onondaga and two Oneidas,) the following letter and the paper therein mentioned to the Chiefs of the two nations. To the Chiefs of the Six Nations. Brothers, Two runners were sent by us this week with a mefsage [message] dated this 11th of this month, to the Indian Nations afsembled [assembled] at the Rapids of the Miami. Our instructions to the Runners were to inform you that they had such a mefsage [message] from us and to request you to afesmble [assemble] the Chiefs of the other nations, and then deliver it to you all together. From the report of the Runners, we are apprehensive that they mistook our orders, and that our mefsage [message] had not been communicated to you. We therefore now send you a Copy of it No 1. We at the same time sent a letter to Colonel McKee of which also we inclose [enclose] a Copy No 2. Brothers, Our runners returned hither this evening; but a few hours before their arrival, two Wyandots Runners arrived with a written answer No 3. to our speech of the 31st 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 businefs [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 [counsel?]