immagine that if you are here by the beginning of the week after the next it will be in time. Albany, Aug. 14, 1784. Mr. Chancellor Livingston. [No. 5477a.] Copy of Message from Arthur Lee & Richard Butler, United States Commissioners, to the Chiefs of the Six Nations that They Will Meet Them at Fort Schuyler on the 20th prox. Peter and other Oneida & Tuscarora Chiefs informed his Excellency the Governor that they had received a letter from Arthur Lee & Richard Butler which they were desireous he should see but they had left it with their other Papers at Oneida; they, therefore, preferred to send a Runner for it which they accordingly did & it being produced to the Commissioners the following Copy was taken from it. THE MESSAGE. To the Sachems and Warriors &c of the Oneidas & Tuskaroras Allies of the United States and Tribes of the Six Nations. Brethren, The late trouble in which we have been mutually involved being happily ended--Congress have thought proper to appoint us Commissioners to transact all kind of public business between the United States and our Brethren the Oneidas & Tuskaroras and to settle a general Peace with all the Indian Nations from the Ohio River to the Great Lakes. We now inform you by the Hand of our Messenger & Brother Samuel Kirkland, and Mr. James Deane, the Interpreter and Servant of Congress that we are making every preperation and exertion to expedite a meeting with you. We have lately heard that you are called to a Treaty by the |