forwarding an accommodation of
differences with
the United States: and, Government having agreed
that
a treaty should be held in the Indian country,
near Detroit, during the summer following, — those
Indian
deputies repeatedly urged that some Friends
should attend the negociations,
stating, that “the
Nations they represented had a special confidence
in Friends, as a people who, from their first settle-
ment in America, had
manifested a steady adherence
to the maintenance of peace and friendship
with the
Natives.” In accordance with the desire which
Friends had
long felt, to promote peace, the propo-
sal was acceded to; and six Friends
were deputed to
accompany the Commissioners appointed by govern-
ment,
on this occasion, after having obtained the
President's approbation.
The Commissioners appointed on this embassy
were, general Benjamin Lincoln, colonel
Timothy
Pickering, and Beverly
Randolph, Esq. The Friends
who accompanied them, were,
John Parrish, William
Savery, and John
Elliott, of Philadelphia,
Jacob
Lindley, of Chester county, and
Joseph Moore and
William Hartshorne, of New Jersey.
See Halliday Jackson's valuable work, lately
pub-
lished, entitled, Civilization of the Indian Natives,
page 7, 8 —
Oliver Paxson's Letter to John Simpson,
page 31, vol. 1— also, the
interesting "Narrative
of the Mission of the United Brethren, among the
Delaware and Mohegan Indians," by
John Hecke-
welder, printed 1820 —
page 401-3.