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Father, When we saw we had been deceived, and heard the invitation which you gave us to draw near the fire which you had kindled, and talk with you concerning peace, we made haste towards it. You then told us, you could crush us to nothing, and you demanded from us a great country, as the price of that peace which you had offered to us; as if our want of strength had destroyed our rights. Our chiefs had felt your power, and we were unable to contend against you, and they therefore gave up that country. What they agreed to has bound our nation -- But your anger against us must by this time be cooled, and although our strength has not increased, nor your power become less, we ask you to consider calmly -- Were the terms dictated to us by us by your commissioners reasonable and just?

Father, Your commissioners when they drew the line which separated the land then give up to you from that which you agreed should remain to be our's, did most solemnly promise, that we should be secure in the peaceable possession of the land which we inhabited east & north of that line. Does this promise bind you? Hear now we entreat you what has since happened concerning that land. On the day we finished the treaty at fort Stanwix, commissioners from Pennsylvania told our chiefs that they had come there to purchase from us, all the lands belonging to us within the lines of their state; and they told us that their line would strike the river Susquehannah below the Tioga branch. They then left us to consider of the bargain until next day. The next day we let them know that we were unwilling to sell all the land within their state, and promised to let them have a part of it, which we pointed out to them in their map. They told us they must have the whole;