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Father: We thank you from our hearts that we now know\ 

 that there is a country we may call our own, and on which wei 

 may lay down in peace. We see that there will be peace between, 

 your children and our children, and our hearts are very glad. 



Two years later Great Tree died in Philadelphia. Col. Thomas; 

 Proctor w^as at Buffalo Ap. 2"] to ^lay 23, 1791, but with little^ 

 success. His journal is full of interesting details and he visited: 

 several Indian towns. Beside those at Buffalo creek, he men- 

 tioned Squawkie Hill, Nondas, Canaseder, Ohhishew or Dune-: 

 wangua, Tenachshagouchtongu or Burnt House, Cayantha or 

 Cornfields, Venango, Cattaragus, Carrahadeer, Hiskhue and 

 Coneyat. These Seneca towns are as spelled by him. About 

 Buffalo were more than 170 well built cabins, and the Onondagas 

 had a village there. The Indians there were under British con- 

 trol, well clothed and fed. The chiefs refused to send deputies 

 with him to the Miamis, but the women interfered. Red Jacket 

 speaking for them, and delegates were appointed. The refusal 

 of a vessel by the British forced Proctor to a1)andon the trip, and 

 lie found that Young King and Farmer's Brother were both on 

 the British side, as most of the Indians were. 



Col. Timothy Pickering held a successful council at Klmira 

 N^. Y., in June 1791. It was appointed for Painted Post, where 

 an earlier council had been held, but Newtown, now Elmira, was 

 more accessible for boats. There were 200 Onondaga and Oneida 

 warriors present, with 682 Senecas, and it was agreed to send 

 chiefs to Philadelphia the next year. 



St Clair's defeat happened that year, and Stone supposed that 

 lirant was there with 150 Mohawks. It is not improbable, for he 

 was at a western war council that year and spoke in behalf of the 

 Mora\-ian Indians: " Why should we wish to compel them to g' 

 to war? . . . Let them be, and disturl) them not." Thi- 

 victory greatly elated the young Indian \varriors, and Zeisbergci 

 wrote, Sep. 28: "Warriors came here, going to the war. \\ t 

 heard that all Cornplanter's young peo])le had left him and gone 

 to the Miami to take ]:)art in the war." He was but a war chief 



In this year we have again a glimpse of the female part of tlu 



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