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of everlasting happiness in the Life which is to come. Detroit 7 mo 17th, 1793J.P. J.M. J.L.W.S. J.E. W.H. 18th. Some of our Friends had an interview with a Person of the Name of Wilbank, who- within a few days past arrived, with a Party of 26 Southern Indians, from the back parts of the Carolina's and Georgia, at the Great Council at the Miami, - he came from thence to this place, and a Vessel is to be dispatched immediately to carry him down to Governor Simcoe. He says, that the Indians have in several instances been grossly imposed upon, particularly by Governor Blount, who by bribing an Interpreter had cheated them out of a great extent of Country, and defrauded them of one half the Sum, agreed upon to be paid yearly, as as a compensation for the Land granted,- in one instance where they had agreed to sell 50 miles square they had fraudulently put in the Deed 80 miles - and where they had