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1794 WD 11 mo. 6. 5. No public business to day, the Commissioner being engaged in private Council with some of the Sachems & Warriors, our patience is like to be further tried, this evening Capt. Hendrick his wife & brother Solomon drank tea with us, she presented me with a pair of curious Mockisons of her own make for my Daughter Sally, with a little basket, as a token of her respect for some little presents she had received by her husband

      7.  6.  But little business done today, the Indians appear to be dissatisfied with the boundaries made by the Treaty, this evening Col. Pickering drank tea with us & complained he was so out of patience, that he was ready to wish he might never see another yellow face, but was still in hopes they would confirm the present treaty, and also said the reason of the Indians demur, was because much of their Land was required to be given up, in Consequence of the Conquest ___

in margin: Some reasons for not signing the treaty

 A sufficient reason for us not to sign the Articles of the Treaty, seeing we can take no part in war, but bear a Testimony against it in all its Branches __ There is noble & benevolent Disposition in the Natives not excelled by the high professing Christians, for by their fruits ye shall know them  the Indians are kind to strangers, Witness Jefferson's Acct of Logan, who said, did any one come to Logan's Cabbin, & go away hungry
      8.  7.  It appears by the Agent's account, that there has already been 160 Cattle kill'd for the Indians, & some of them very fat, weighing nearly 700 on an average, which has gone to supply 1680 Natives great & small __.  How dark is the policy of nations, not considering that nothing short of doing as we would be done unto will stand the test __ In the afternoon we met with diverse Indians of different tribes, and went into an investigation respecting some Lands settled by some friends before it was purchased by Government, and it appears that the Tuskaroras were the original owners, and gen.