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8. old Shawano Chief Cackkawatcheky, of a Strought Watchcoat, a blanket, a common Watchcoat, a shirt a pair of stockings & a large twist of tobacco. I told him the President & Council of Philadelphia remembered their love to him as to their old & true friend & would clothe his old body once more, & wished that he might wear out these clothes, & live so much longer as to give them an opportunity to clothe him again. There were a great many of the Shawano Indians present, among them the big Humming Bird & the Bride, being two of them that went off with Peter Chartier, but protested against this proceeding against one trader. Cacheawatchiky returned many thanks, & some of the Six Nations did the same, & expressed their satisfaction to see that a true man was taken notice of, although he was now grown childish. the 11. Stored in concert with George Cooghan an 8. gallon cask of whiskey belonging to the aforesaid Henry Rolling, who could not be prevailed upon to hide it in the woods, but would sell & drink himself.

 I desired the Indians in Council to send some of their young men to meet our people with the goods, & not come back before they heard or saw of them. I begun to be afraid they had fallen into the hands of the enemy, so did the Indians themselves. Ten warriors from Niagara came to town by water, we suspected them very much & feared that some of their parties went to meet our people by hearing of them in coming down the river.