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Beyond Penn's Treaty

Journey to Detroit

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the noncompliance of the United States with
two Articles of the Treaty of Peace - let these
Articles be complied with and the Forte shall
be immediately complied with evacuated,
and, he added, with some degree of warmth
- I know the disposition of your people, - what
signifies that Pidgeon House - pointing to the
Fort - I know you can take it - it is not
in the strength the place that I put my
dependance, but it is in this, that we have
Boston, New York

and Philadelphia in
Mortgage for your peaceable behaviour.

31st.

Rain all these 24 hours almost without
intermission - J. Heckenwelder

and Doctr. MoCoskry
set off for Fort Erie in order to enquire after a
passage to Detroit. - This day J.Moore join'd us,
and we were visited by Captain Hendrick and
some of the Stockbridge Indians, most of whom
speak good English, and appear to be a civil well-
-behaved people.

6mo. 1st.

This morning the Rain abated - took
a walk up the River.- immediately from the
Landing the Bank rises to the heigth of more than
150 feet above the surface of the Water, - the
range of high Land, extending each way from
the River, about an East and West course - the Land
below towards Lake Ontario, being a Level plain,