to cherish them as your children, they will rejoice in having acquired a new, and so good, a father. Council adjourned.

I certify the foregoing to be a true register of the minutes and proceedings of the treaty of Greenville.

H. DE BUTTS, Secretary.

HEAD QUARTErs, Greenville, 20th Sept., 1795.

A return of the numbers of the different nations of Indians present at, and parties to, the treaty of Greenville, taken on the 7th

To the Cherokees, now settled on the head waters of Scioto.

Whereas, I, Anthony Wayne, Major General, commanding the army of the United States, and sole commissioner for settling at

permanent peace with all the Indian tribes northwest of the river Ohio, having accomplished that great and good work, and having this day signed and exchanged articles of a permanent peace with the Chippewas, Ottawas, Pattawatamies, Wyandots, Delawares, Shawanese, Miamies, Eel river, Weas, and Kickapoos, nations of Indians:

Do, hereby, once more invite you, the said Cherokees, residing on the waters of the Scioto, to come forward immediately to this place, and enter into similar articles of peace: for which purpose, I now send Captain Long-hair, a principal Cherokee chief, to conduct you to head quarters, where you shall be received in friendship, and treated with kindness and hospitality. Captain Long-hair will give you the particulars respecting this treaty; as also those of a treaty of peace lately made between the United States and the Cherokee nation; so that you now stand alone and unprotected, unless you comply with this last invitation.

Given at Head quarters, Greenville, 3d August, 1795.

ANTHONY WAYNE.

INDIAN RELATIONS OF GREAT BRITAIN.

EXHIBIT 79.

John Butler to Captain Mathews.1

Niagara, 3rd May 1783.

SIR/ Your much esteemed favors of the 12th March I received. Brigadier General Maclean has not as yet communicated to me His Excellency's pleasure respecting Captain Tuibrook.

As His Excellency the Commander in Chief is very desirous to know the progress of the Farmers settled near this Post, I take this opportunity to transmit you an exact survey of the settlements, and will as soon as possible send you an estimate of the same specifying the quantity of land already cleared and cultivated with the different kinds of grain planted and sown &c.

I also inclose the Accot. for surveying those Lands, which I beg you will lay before His Excellency as Sir John Johnson has positively forbid the making any charges in the Contingent Accounts, that is not immediately Indian Expenses, and Brig. General Maclean has also refused to defray any expenses of the kind whatever.

/ Several people has apply'd to settle on Lands at this Post, and would have been doing something for themselves by this time, had they not been refused Provisions.

I have comply'd with His Excellency's commands in every rcspect as nearly as possible relative to Indian Affairs, indeed I cannot help saying far exceeding my own expectations circumstanced as I was, but my close application, and strict attention to the Indians has hitherto kept them in good Humour; but now I am fearful of a sudden and disagreeable change in their conduct, as yesterday an express arrived here from Genl. Washington with the terms of the present peace, the Indians finding that their Lands are ceded to the Americans, will greatly sour their Tempers and make them very troublesome and will be attended with great difficulty to recon

'Canadian Archives, Bv., 169.

cile them to such Terms. I have wrote Sir John on the occasion and

requested his presence.

I am Sir

with great regard &c.

JOHN BUTLER.

Captain Mathews

Endorsed

1783

From Lt. Col. Butler

3rd. May. Recd. 21st

No 30

EXHIBIT 80.

Governor Haldimand to Lord North.1

QUEBEC, 27th November 1783. MY LORD. Your Lordships Letters of 12th May, 16th & 24th July and 8th August arrived here so late from Halifax that I had time to acknowledge little more than the Receipt of them by the last Transport which sailed from hence the 21st of this month. I take the opportunity of a Trusty person whom I send to Halifax in order to bring the Dispatch which you mention in one of Your Lordship's Letters, to convey this.

I have considered with attention the Instructions and Letters which I have had the Honor to receive, and will communicate my Sentiments with Freedom. I hope that the several Letters which I have wrote during the course of last Summer will have given Your Lordship and other His Majesty's Confidential Servants, a more clear and exact Idea of the State of things in the Upper Countries and of the Views and Expectations of the Indians. They entertain no Idea (tho' the Americans have not been wanting to insinuate it) that the King either ceded or had a Right to cede their Territories or Hunting Grounds to the United States of North America.

'Canadian Archives, Q. 23, p. 46.

These People, my Lord, have as enlightened Ideas of the nature and obligations of Treaties as the most Civilized Nations have, and know that no Infringement of the Treaty in 1768 which fixed the Limits between their country and that of the different Provinces in North America can be binding upon them without their express Concurrence and Consent. Your Lordship will observe that the object of their General Confederacy is to defend their Country against all Invaders. In case things should proceed to extremities, the event, no doubt, will be the destruction of the Indians, but during the Contest, not only the Americans but perhaps many of His Majesty's Subjects will be exposed to great distresses. To prevent such a disastrous event as an Indian War, is a Consideration worthy the attention of both Nations, and cannot be prevented so effectually as by allowing the Posts in the Upper Country to remain as they are for some time. I already hinted to Your Lordship my wishes that my orders will be to withdraw the Troops and stores from the Posts within a certain time and to leave the Indians and Americans to make their own arrangements, As to the latter's taking Possession, but this will depend upon the conditions of the Definitive Treaty. It would certainly be better for both Nations and the most likely means to prevent Jealousies and Quarrels that the intermediate Country between the Limits assigned to Canada by the Provisional Treaty & those established as formerly mentioned by that in the year 1768, should be considered entirely as belonging to the Indians, and that the Subjects neither of Great Britain nor of the American States should be allowed to settle within them, but that the Subjects of each should have liberty to Trade where they please. This leads me my Lord, to the consideration of another part of Your Lordship's Letter where you mention the advantages of Settling with Royalists the Tract of Land to the Eastward of the River St. Lawrence and bounded on the North and West by the Revolted Colonies.

Upon this Head I beg leave to observe that in all probability this Province, when the Posts in the Upper Country shall be evacuated, will lose much of its importance in a Commercial Light, and that it will be a matter of great doubt whether it would be