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1793 6 mo. 25 3 if duly attended to, teach a better conduct, than to press into the Indian Country, to settle upon Land not fairly purchased , of which they complain, instance Tediuscung’s Complaint at the Treaty in 1787, at Eastown,& before at Lancaster, when the Line had been fixed /as they expressed on the Middle of the Hill, meaning the Allegahany, yet they complain’d, that the white People came over & settled on the other side, as thick as flocks of Birds, and since, in one of the last Purchases to the westward of the Ohio, and particularly to the Commissioners to the southward, after they were prevail’d upon to speak, which was done with difficulty, they apprehending, that it would be to no purpose, at length one of them told the Commissioners you are such Villians you have so much Rascallity about you that we have Indian gives the white people a character No Confidence in you when we see a white Man your Colour bespeaks Deception, & your Tongue a Lye, & went on to charge the white People, since the Revolution of breaking their Covenants, & going beyond the Line, which had been agreed on, which the Commissioner acknowledged was too true, these are a few of their Complaints, so that their Aggravations must be allow’d to be great, not only respecting their Lands, but also in murdering & robing of the witness the horrid Murderon the Manor, which was follow’d by the Massacreeing 14, after they had been taken under Protection in Lancaster Jail, and the Massacreeing 96 of the Moravian peaceable Indians in cold Blood, in their own Country on the Muskingum, where they had made considerable Improvements in building comfortable House to live in, & in cultivating their Land, & considerable advances toward a rivil & religious LIfe, many more Instances might be mentioned besides what is contain’s in the Corn Planter’s Speech to the President of the United States & that at Pine & Beaver Creeks, and another in Thos. Jefferson’s Notes on Virginia, of the Murdering the great Logans family at the Mouth of the Canawway by Crissup’s Party. 26 4 This morning the Chippaway sailed, & by it I wrote to my beloved Wife and Daughter, dined at John Askins, who is one of the most respectable Merchants in the Place, and we were entertained in a pleasing manner, his Wife isa french Woman of an easy graceful Deportment, we had