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John Peirce Notes, on a visit to Several Tribes of Indians, 1796

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River, was related to me as a fact, by Cap. Hendrick at Stockbridge; viz. That the said Brant being in those parts Jemima sent him a message that she had a Desire to see him, upon which he paid her a visit; and upon her asking him a certain Question, he an-swered her in his own Language and she not understanding him, repeated the Question, or asked another; he again answered in another Indian Language; and so the third time: When he observed to him that she had heard of him, that he was a Scholar and a man of Information, and that she had promised