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make out to bring the whole of your Nation here, you can have better chance to try to live as a people,because this dish is much better than your old dish. 4th. Because you will have the privilege of hear-ing the glad tidings of the Gospel preached, and yourchildren will be instructed to read and write. 5th. Because here we can live together as onefamily, and counsel one another, and comfortand exhort one another daily, so long as we are allowedto live this side of eternity. From your grandchildren, Sachems, JOSEPH SKAUQUEATHQUANT, HENDRICK AUPAMUT. Counsellors of Maheconneck Nation, JOHN QUINNEY, JOSEPH QUINNEY. Delivered in full Council. New Stockbridge, October 9th, 1796. To the Stockbridge.—Answer. Grandchildren—Attend. I am glad that, by the goodness of the GreatSpirit, we were allowed to meet together by the sideof this fire-place, to smoke the pipe of friendship, asour ancestors were accustomed to do. Grandchildren,I am glad to find a token of your friendship, whichyou manifested at your grandfather's arrival at thisfire-place; likewise, ever since, for which we areextremely thankful, and ever shall be gratefully re-membered. Grandchildren—At our arrival, you wiped awaythe tears from our eyes, which were caused by thefilth and dust which blew into them in our longjourney, as also, on the account of the many talltrees, which are fallen and lost amongst us. Like-wise, you have cleared out my ears and throat, andset my heart upright. Likewise, you have wiped off