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to Heisberger and the Congregation settled on Beaver Creek; but a deputation was also sent in the Year 1771, to the Christian Indian Congregation at Wyoluving and Sheshequon on the Susquehanna, inviting these to come on with their Teachers, and settle on the Muskingum, (in Eng: Elks Eyes.) where they would be received as friends, and have the choice of Land, on which they might live in peace and safety - and as a proof, that by sending this Message, no evil was intended, they requested [Heisberger], to certify their sincerity by a Letter in his own handwriting, which having done, Wangonnen immediately set out with the dispatches, and having delivered the same to the Christian Indians of Friedenohutten (Wyatning) and Shesheguon; he received the short answer; "that they thanked the Chief on Muskingum for their kind interposition in their behalf* but that at present they were too heavy** to give that when they should have lightened themselves, they would inform the Chief, and give them a decisive Answer." Sometime after the Chief Netawatwes repeated the invitation in a more pressing manner, in which the Wyondots, whom the Delawares call