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                 you in your Speech said he, told is the unites States intended to put 
                 a stop to our Complaints by doing us Justice, this he said was very 
                 good, we don't mean to seek revenge, or how shall we make Peace, 
                 it is the Voice of the six Nations that the Chain of Friendship be 
                 made bright, we don't intend to sell any more of our Lands, what 
                 we have is little enough for our young Warriors & others to hunt 
                 upon, we have been waiting for a man to come that would speak 
                 the Truth & be our friend, if any such come among us, they will see 
                 that we mean Friendship. And many more pointed Remarks which 
                 in the hurry could not be taken in writing.
Red                After the Rain was over we return'd to the Bowry Red Jacket 
Jacket       rose & spoke on a belt, & made Remarks to several Matters contain'd 
Speaks     in the Commissioner's Speech, & said Brothers, we are going to raise 
                 our Voices, don't have any hard Thoughts, you told us in your Speech, 
                 how it was with your Ancestors many hundred years ago, that their 
                 Condition was like unto ours at present, that they drest, painted & 
                 hunted as we do, & how they became Civilized, & what Blessings you 
                 enjoy, & how you have increased & and likewise Obeal or the Corn 
                 planter's request when in Philadelphia, that we might be assisted 
                 in building saw Mills, & be furnished with Instructors & Impliments of 
                 Husbandry, and divers other Matters, this is all very good; but it must be
                 a work of Time, He said we have our Antient Customs, I have one in my
                 Hand (meaning the Belt) which we cannot see how to do without, he spoke 
                 of some Grievances, & concluded there were bad People among themselves 
                 as well as among the white People, & exprest a desire that these Things 
                 might be buried out of Sight, so deep as to never rise again, He then 
                 observed relative to the late Revolution, & said your old Friends the 
                 Brittons wanted to make Slaves of you; but you were not willing, and 
                 it is the Determination of the Indians to be a free People, but the late 
                 Contest was like a great storm that had like to have swept us off our 
                 Feet, or brought us into a Scrape, when you spoke to us about Peace, 
                 we had the Matter at Heart, & strove to bring it about with the 
                 western Indians, and Brant is employ'd about that Business, 
                 listen Brothers to our Speech, we are in Hopes the great Spirit 
                 will assist us to cause the Shan'neese & Delawares to take hold of the 
                 Offers of Peace, I hope some of our Nephews who are now here and are