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10 1791 WD 6mo. 30.5 in Peace & Friendship, when we went & come where we pleased, our Wives & Children were in Safety, respecting the White People you have told is how it was in the Time of your fore Fathers, we wish tell you how it has been with us formerly, our Nations were always at War among one another, Indians were born with a Hatchet in their Hands, until sir Wm Johnson told us we out to be one People, he made Peace among us, for which we revered his Name but after some years the French made War upon the English, then sir Wm Johnson came to us & laid his Tomahawk down by us, & told us to take it up, but it was not right for him to put it into out Hands, when we go to War among ourselves we don't the the white People to our Assistance, we fight our own Battles, we wish the white People to do the same, & never offer us the Tomahawk anymore, in the last War when we hear that Brothers were going to fight against Brothers, we thought it strange, we hardly could believe that such wise People of the same Flesh and Blood would rise up & destroy one another, we saw they could not make a clear Stroke, because they could not distinguish between Enemies and Friends, if we had had our Senses about us, we should not have taken up the Tomahawk at any Time, either between the French & English, not in the late War, when Brothers rose up against Brothers to slay each other, Col. Pickering observed that this Conversation was unexpected to him; but he was particularly pleased with what had pass'd on all sides, & the more so because it was unpremeditated, & then People were most likely to speak the Sentiments of their Hearts, he then endeavored to enforce what we had said, & told them we were of the peaceable Society call'd Quakers, members of the same Body of People in Pennsylvania that had dealt so honestly with their fore Fathers, who lived in Peace so long as they had heard for 70 years and that we had come a great way in order to attend the Treaty, and that we knew the friendly Intention of the great Chief of the United States towards the Indian Nations, & that our Presence must be sufficient to remove from their Minds every Jealousy, which some of our common Enemies had been endeavoring to inspire them with, I recollected that I had brought with me a Stone Indian Pipe, that was found in a Draw