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we in every respect favourable, offering every advantage toward forming Indian Settlements, he kept tough form and obtained permission of teh Chippewas, who claimed the Land, for us to settle thereon, untill a Peace should take place; and having done this, he advised us, to send a Message out to our Indians, to invite them to come on in which he also assisted us.

Messages were therefore prepared and sent, both to those who were fled to the Sciota, and those on the Miami of the Lake. That in writing, sent by the Commandant, (by a Frenchman) to the first mentioned place, having come to Elliots