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forwarding an accommodation of differences with the United States: and, Government having agreed that a treaty should be held in the Indian country, near Detroit, during the summer following, — those Indian deputies repeatedly urged that some Friends should attend the negociations, stating, that “the Nations they represented had a special confidence in Friends, as a people who, from their first settle-ment in America, had manifested a steady adherence to the maintenance of peace and friendship with the Natives.” In accordance with the desire which Friends had long felt, to promote peace, the propo-sal was acceded to; and six Friends were deputed to accompany the Commissioners appointed by govern-ment, on this occasion, after having obtained the President's approbation. The Commissioners appointed on this embassy were, general Benjamin Lincoln, colonel Timothy Pickering, and Beverly Randolph, Esq. The Friends who accompanied them, were, John Parrish, William Savery, and John Elliott, of Philadelphia, Jacob Lindley, of Chester county, and Joseph Moore and William Hartshorne, of New Jersey. See Halliday Jackson's valuable work, lately pub-lished, entitled, Civilization of the Indian Natives,page 7, 8 — Oliver Paxson's Letter to John Simpson, page 31, vol. 1— also, the interesting "Narrative of the Mission of the United Brethren, among the Delaware and Mohegan Indians," by John Hecke-welder, printed 1820 — page 401-3. I left my dear wife and family on first-day morn-ing, the 28th of the 4th month, 1793. It was a close