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On First Day the 4th of the 5th Mo 1793 at 9 o'clock in the evening left New York in order to attend the Treaty to be held with the Indians at Sandusky, near the West end of Lake Erie. Our company who were going the same rout consisted of Jacob Lindley, William Savery, Rich'd Hillary, a young Englishman, John Hackenwelder, a Minister among the Moravians, Dr. William McCoskry, and Captain Scott, Commissary to the Commissioners. We had an indifferent passage up the river, part of the way being in the Night, and arrived at Albany on the 8th, about 5 in the morning.- Albany appears to be a place of considerable trade, some of the Houses are well Built, the streets mostly paved, but some of them very narrow and irregularly laid out -- here the Low Dutch Language is generally spoken, and the manners of the inhabitants not esteemed very pleasing. At Albany we found General Lincoln, one of the commissioners, and ChS Stover, their Secretary -- upon our arrival with the Stores, General Lincoln was desirous of going immediately to Schenectady, and with considerable difficulty, and many hours delay, at length procured a Horse and Chair, and without an Attendant, about 6 in the Evening, set off for that