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darkness. And learn and children to read and till the ground and our women to spin and make cloth. We wish if you will to take three of our boys and learn them, one to be a Blacksmith and two to read and write. We want them sent away off. We wish to hear from you. We want to know what you think about what we say. John Fopp Blue sky Capt. Jimmy Jimmy Johnson John Luke Chiefs of the Seneca Indians at Tonnewanta Creek Dated at Tonnewonta Village the 18th of 5th Mo. 1826 Communicated to Charles Willis &; Jesse P. Haines Copies of Letters in relation to Treaty with the Seneca Nation, at Buffalo--Red Jacket, &;c 1827 Canandaigua 20th April 1827.Sir, A copy of Letter to Col. Thomas L. McKinney from Joseph Parrish, sub Agent I received some time ago your letter of the 5th inst. covering the copy of a Remonstrance of Red Jacket and other Indians of the Seneca Nation to Gov. Clinton against the late treaty of Cession entered into between the Seneca Nation and the owners of the Pre-emptive Right of their Reservations. I would have replied sooner to your communications, but the state of my health had been suvh as to feel it out of my power to attend to any business until now. I have been acquainted with all the negotiations which have taken place for the last Eight or ten years between the Proprietors of the Preemptive Right and the Indians and have been present at various meetings of the Indians for the consideration of the same. The matter was fully and de- liberately discussed among the Indians at various Councils; and when the treaty was concluded at Buffalo in August last it was done with as much unanimity and as much to the satisfaction of the influential Chiefs &; Nations as any treaty I have ever witnessed. It was signed &; assented to by every chief who was present &; by Red Jacket as well as the . He had opposed it, but when at last the terms of the Purchase were agreed to, he was not only willing, but insisted on his right