290 Peter Fend among the Oneida Indians. 



nation to adhere to your old minister, for I fear the 

 preaching of different doctrines among you, will not only 

 serve to perplex and puzzle your understandings, and di- 

 visions either with respect to your temporal or spiritual 

 concerns, may prove dangerous to your welfare and pros- 

 perity. 



" Brothers: lam happy to hear that you are firmly 

 united as to our late agreement, and you may rest assured 

 that it will he faithfully observed on the part of the state. 

 Let me exhort you to sobriety and industry, for it is this 

 alone, by the blessing of the Great Spirit, that you can 

 secure your comfort and happiness. 



"I am your Friend and Brother, 



" George Clinton." 



A few days after, three Oneidas addressed the following 

 letter to the governor : 



" Brother : We, your Brothers, the chief warriors, did 

 send a letter a few days ago to your Excellency, wherein 

 we informed you that we, the Oneidas, are divided into 

 two parties, the Sachems and some of the warriors are 

 for the French, that is to say, Peter Penet, and we and 

 some of the chief warriors are for the State of New York, 

 and this is now to inform you again, that we, the warriors, 

 are sorry for our situation. We conversed with our sachems 

 yesterday, in order to unite again, but our sachems 

 spoke to us contrary to our opinions; they say they 

 will make us sensible of our error at Mr Penet's return 

 from Jamaica, and can not make up with us at present. 



"Brother : We well remember all our agreements and 

 transactions with you, and will hold it as long as we can, 

 this our sachems blame us a good deal about our errors ; 

 but we, the warriors, are sensible that our sacliems do err 

 in trusting so much to Mr. Penet. Our sachems have 

 granted another piece of land to one of Mr. Penet's men 1 



1 To John Francis Perache. The tract was two miles square, and in the 



