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1791 D 7 mo.10 1 are goin about this important Business may succeed, when they return you will be

                                        acquainted with their Success, the white People go where they please, and we wish 
                                        to go where we please, we are scattered a great Distance a part, & if any of our People 
                                        should be taken, we hope they may not be abused, he then wished Congress to pay 
                                        attention to what had been offered to Consideration.       
         11 2                           My Companion returned, whose Company I was glad of, his Curiosity led him farther
                                        than he intended, he went to see Jemimah Wilkinson's settlement, & confirms the
                                        account I had before received, that she is a vain deluded Woman, but the People under
                                        this Delusion appear to be sober and industrious, and have made considerable Improvements.
                                            In the afternoon the Council met & the Col: deliver'd a Speech, at the close of which 
                                        Gayashuster rose and address'd the Warriors in an animated Speech, after which he 
                                        turned to the Commissioner, & said as follows, Brother, you have made us a long Speech, we
                                        desire you to give us time to consider of it, we believe your Heart to be very sincere, we approve
                                        of what you have said in general; but something you have said displeased our Warriors, we hope
                                        you will be more careful in future, I am an old Man, I speak on behalf of all the Warriors, we believe
                                        that the great Spirit has institued our Order, & that he would not have our Minds to be changed 
                                        however make your Mind easy Brother, we just now begin the great Work of Peace, we know 
                                        not what may happen in time to come, we may hear things that may change our Minds, we know
                                        you have more to say to us, we hope it will please us as well as what you have already said, 
                                        there are Warriors now present from all Parts of our Nation, & we wish something may be done
                                        to to general Satisfaction, you have heard Brother, what I have said to you, I am an old Man, &
                                        I have had a Mind that you & our Warriors should hear a few Words, one that desires Peace 
                                        may be preserved among us, Brother I deliver these Strings in Confirmation of what I have said
                                        ____________ It is mournful to consider, how these People's Possessions are taken from them
                                        & they driven to great Extrimity; May the Prayers of the Righteous unitedly ascend to the Throne
                                        of Grace for their help
          12  3                      We din'd with Col: Pickering, and while we were there, an account came that Capt: Brant who 
                                        went on an embassy to negotiate a Peace with the western Indians, that while he was in Council
                                        with them, a Runner came in & gave Information that the American Army was near, which
                                        occasioned the Council to break up on a sudden, & they then presented the Hatchet to 
                                                                                                                                                                                 Brant