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As be driven, with our wives and children, from the only country which we had any right to; and therefore, weak as our nation was, they determined to take the chance of war rather than submit to such unjust demands, which seemed to have no bounds. Also Streets? the great unclear at Niagara, was then with us, having come at the request of Phelps and as he he had always professed to be our great friend, we consulted him on the subject. He also told us, that our lands had been ceded by the king, and we must give them up. Astonished at what we had heard at every quarter, with hearts aching with compassion for our women and children, we were thus compelled to give up all our country north of the line of Pennsylvania, and east of the Gennesee River up to the great fork, and east of a south line drawn up from that fork to the line of Pennsylvania. For this land P-- agreed to pay us ten thousand dollars in hand, and one thousand dollars a year for ever. He paid us two thousand five hundred dollars, and he sent for us to come last spring and receive new money; but instead of paying us the remainder of the ten thousand dollars, and the one thousand dollars due for the first year he offered only five hundred dollars, and insisted that he had agreed with us for that sum to be had yearly. We debated with him for six days, during all which time he persisted in refusing to pay us our just demand; and he insisted that we should receive the five hundred dollars; and Sheet from Niagara also insisted on our receiving the money, as it was offered to us. The last reason which he assigned for continuing to refuse was -- That the King had ceded the lands to the thirteen fires, and that he had bought them from you and paid you for them. Father, we could bear the confusion no longer, and determined to press through every difficulty and lift up our voices that you may cheer? us, and claim that security in the possession of our lands, which your commissioners so solemnly promised us; and we now intreat you to enquire into our complaints and to redress our wrongs. Father, Our writings were lodged in the Lands of S. of Niagara as we suppose him to be our friend; but we saw P. consulting S. on every occasion, we doubted of his honesty towards us; and we have since heard that he was to receive for his endeavors to deceive us, a piece of land ten miles in width, west of the Gennesee River, and nearly forty miles in length, extending to Lake Ontario; and the lines of this tract have been run accordingly, altho' no part of it is within the bounds which limit his purchase. Father, you have said we were in your hand, and that by closing it, you could crush us to nothing. Are you then determined to crush us?