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A Mission to the Indians from the Indian Committee of Baltimore Yearly Meeting to Fort Wayne, in 1804

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After delivering this letter we proceeded to the house of a Canadian trader, who we had pre-viously been informed would furnish us with accommodations. In the evening the Commandant followed us to our quarters, discovering marks of great re-spect and attention, and appears to be a gentle-man. He has urgently pressed us to dine with him to-morrow, and we have accepted the invi-tation. 31st. This morning the commanding officer, accompanied by John Johnson and William Wells, the two other persons named in the letter to the Secretary of War, waited upon us. They