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Counsellors & Men of the same Principles. and there are many of my friends who really love and Respect you. and tho' we are not Concerned in the Government, have good Estates in it, and wish its Welfare and Prosperity, but We are mad every sorrowfull by the bad Conduct of your Cousins the Delawares, who contrary to the friendship they formerly had for us. have done very wickedly & shed the Blood fo many of our Bretheren

Scarroyada Answers. What you now say to us I take to be [unclear] to all our Brethren of the six Nations, and shall answer you in their Name. We are glad to hear there are some People left of the peaceable Principle, we wish it had been told us sooner, & that you had always spoke and acted agreeable to this Principle: For we are sure that tho' our Cousins, the Delaware have struck the Blow, they wou'd not hurt any of You, if they know you as such, & if you had taken sufficient care in Time, you might have kept them under your Eye as Children. The Interpreter explain'd this, that the Expression implied that we had been too negligent of cultivating our Friendship with the Indians, and that if we had been more Concerned with Each other, the Delaware wou'd have remain'd subject to the Six Nations & to us. That they were now grown stiff like a strong tree not easily bow'd, but if we had convers'd with each other with the same Freedom our forefathers did, & thereby manifested that we had nothing but Love and Goodwill in our hearts to them, they might have been kept under our Notice and Direction, as Children under a