speech - that the business of the
Deputies
was to carry the Commissioners answer to the
Great Council,
and they desired the Comissnrs.
would wait a few days for a final
answer.
-The Indians then immediately took their
leave, and Thos. McKee
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set off for the Miami, and as the prospect of meeting
the Indians at a general Treaty now
appears very faint, Friends concluded to forward
the address to the Indians, agreed upon the 17th ulto. ultimus
by him, under cover to his Father Col. McKee
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2nd.
,
on which is a handsome convenient House,
and a very large new Barn - the Land appears
to be of an excellent quallity both for Grass and
every kind of Grain.- He has a large stock of
fine Cattle, among which are 12 yoke of Oxen,
and I counted 31 Calves and 43 milch Cows
- they are just now geting in the last of
their Harvest, the wheat and oats have suffer'd
much from prodigious flocks of Black Birds,
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Being a pleasant day walk'd about four
miles down the Lake - the place
where we are
encamp'd is the property of Capt.
Matthew Elliott
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on which is a handsome convenient House,
and a very large new Barn - the Land appears
to be of an excellent quallity both for Grass and
every kind of Grain.- He has a large stock of
fine Cattle, among which are 12 yoke of Oxen,
and I counted 31 Calves and 43 milch Cows
- they are just now geting in the last of
their Harvest, the wheat and oats have suffer'd
much from prodigious flocks of Black Birds,