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iTork, ill company with Colonel Pickering. Colonel Pickering, 

 tarried one night at the writer's father's, while General Wash- 

 ington put up at a near neighbor's, a Mr. Bloom. This was in 

 Western New York. General Washington and Colonel Pick-^ 

 ering visited all the New York Indians, held councils with 

 them, and delivered talks and speeches to them; some of 

 which, we saw, among these Indians in 1828, while we were 

 on a visit to our old friends still living in the Indian villages. 



This visit was made by General Washington, to conciliate 

 those savages, and to prevent their joining in the war, with the 

 British Indians, as they had done all along before this period* 

 Many New York Indians were present at St. Clair's defeat, 

 and some of them, still went off, and fought against General 

 Wayne, in 1794, when they were defeated, and mostly killed, 

 on the Maumee river. In the summer of 1793, Wayne tried 

 to treat with the Indians. Fort Massac was built, under him, 

 to prevent an expedition against New Orleans, which Genet 

 was planning. General Wayne sent out, in succession, Colo- 

 nel Hardin, aud Major Trueman with a flag of truce, medals, 

 talks and presents to the Indians in order to make a peace 

 with them. 



These messengers of peace were killed in succession, as 

 soon as they arrived among the savages. Their medals, and 

 speeches, sent by them, and all they had with them, were taken 

 by the Indians who sldw the bearers of them. We saw these 

 rnedals and speeches in the possession of the elder Caray Mau- 

 nee, principal chief of the Winnebagoes at Prairie du Chien, 

 in July 1829. 



The medal was a large one, of copper, six inches in diameter, 

 and purported, no doubt truly, to have been made, at the 

 expense of a gentlemah of Philadelphia, and by him, sent as 

 a token of General Washington's friendship, to the Indians. 

 Every other effort was made by General Wayne, that summer^ 

 to bring about a peace with the savages, but all in vain, and 

 worse than in vain. But notwithstanding all the efforts to 

 make a peace, yet, nothing was omitted that could be done, to 

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