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and persons of the settlement where I command has forced me at last to follow your latest train up to your own hunting grounds and hab itations; I could no longer remain idle and see the people under my care suffer moonly losses of property and relations.

Warriors. You do love to War with us at the same time that you deceive our father at New York with peace talks, and you give your hand up to the elbow to his uniforms whilst you keep the hatchet lifted over the heads of those of his children who are your neigh bours.

Warriors. How shall we any longer refuse any con fidence in your protestations of friendship and peaceable disposition towards us, whilst a part of your nation have been making treaties of peace with us and the other was ever busy in shedding our blood on our land.

Warriors. Our Father of New York has been very good to you and in the time of your need supplied you with bread clothing and tools to work your land, and at the same time you were lurking about our farms, carrying all you could steak from his children, and afterwards killed and scalped all you could of them.

Warriors. I am proud to think you mistake our father of New York's bounty to you for the fear of your fighting his Children, and that you think the more mischief you do to them the more wide his hands will be opened to you.

Warriors. Ever since the English War, our Father of New York has kept our hands tied up to keep from ever retaliating the many wrongs we suffered from you every spring, and you know no Father that