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on their Journey having a very rough and disagreeable road as far as Cataraugus 11th of the month we were visited by Cornplan-ter and several other Indians being on their way to Canadarque in order to settle mat-ters about the Land they sold last fall, by whom we wrote to our former companions which they expected to meet at Canadarque 20th of the Month received a letter from John Pierce and Joshua Sharpless by the return of our neighbour John, informing that they had an affectionate parting with Cornplanter at Buffalo Creek who was pressingly solicitous that they should stay un-til the Council met but at length gave it up and in their parting conference Cornplanter feelingly expressed that he hoped they would make their mind perfectly easy about their young Men, for altho he could not answer for sickness or Death on such things, but as for anything else he would look upon it his duty always to be their friend and that they might depend upon him as such, and that no harm should happen to them from his People, he concluded his spech with desi-ring the Great Spirit might preserve them on their journey, and that he might so order