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1791 D 7 mo.10 1 are goin about this important Business may succeed, when they return you will be
acquainted with their Success, the white People go where they please, and we wish
to go where we please, we are scattered a great Distance a part, & if any of our People
should be taken, we hope they may not be abused, he then wished Congress to pay
attention to what had been offered to Consideration.
11 2 My Companion returned, whose Company I was glad of, his Curiosity led him farther
than he intended, he went to see Jemimah Wilkinson's settlement, & confirms the
account I had before received, that she is a vain deluded Woman, but the People under
this Delusion appear to be sober and industrious, and have made considerable Improvements.
In the afternoon the Council met & the Col: deliver'd a Speech, at the close of which
Gayashuster rose and address'd the Warriors in an animated Speech, after which he
turned to the Commissioner, & said as follows, Brother, you have made us a long Speech, we
desire you to give us time to consider of it, we believe your Heart to be very sincere, we approve
of what you have said in general; but something you have said displeased our Warriors, we hope
you will be more careful in future, I am an old Man, I speak on behalf of all the Warriors, we believe
that the great Spirit has institued our Order, & that he would not have our Minds to be changed
however make your Mind easy Brother, we just now begin the great Work of Peace, we know
not what may happen in time to come, we may hear things that may change our Minds, we know
you have more to say to us, we hope it will please us as well as what you have already said,
there are Warriors now present from all Parts of our Nation, & we wish something may be done
to to general Satisfaction, you have heard Brother, what I have said to you, I am an old Man, &
I have had a Mind that you & our Warriors should hear a few Words, one that desires Peace
may be preserved among us, Brother I deliver these Strings in Confirmation of what I have said
____________ It is mournful to consider, how these People's Possessions are taken from them
& they driven to great Extrimity; May the Prayers of the Righteous unitedly ascend to the Throne
of Grace for their help
12 3 We din'd with Col: Pickering, and while we were there, an account came that Capt: Brant who
went on an embassy to negotiate a Peace with the western Indians, that while he was in Council
with them, a Runner came in & gave Information that the American Army was near, which
occasioned the Council to break up on a sudden, & they then presented the Hatchet to
Brant