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our Brother before we are all Dead and Dispers'd out of this
Nation which we are now the Antients of for as there is
but a few of us Remaining nay even But a handfull of us and
but few Young men and Women and as we love to Travel the
Roads and other Places to seek the Support of life and as
you are our Brother therefore beg and hope and beg you will
not Suffer us to be troden down quite for we are as a child
Just beginning to Walk we are so reduced and Deminish'd
and Even as nothing and hope you our Brother will consider
our Pitiful Scituation and Condition that we labour under
at this Present time and as we have ever Continued as true
and faith Subjects to his Sacred Majesty King George our
great Father as we ever esteem him our Father and Protector
of our Nation and People and hope you our kind Brother will
the more esteem and consider our Pittifull and lamentable
Condition we are now in and as we the Antient people of the
Nation hope we shall never be deprived of our antient cus-
toms and Priviledges which we have Ever been allowed be-
fore hard and Pittifull is our Condition now but how much
harder and more Deploreable would it be if we were to be
Deprived andered of those Priviledges which we were al-
lowed of in Antient Times if we are, we shall soon be
brought to nought when there were great numbers of us
Indians & but few white People in this Nation we Enjoyed
our Priviledges Profits and customs in quiet but it is quite to
the contrary now, then were not deprived of our Freedom
and Customs for we had the whole Nation once under our
Jurisdiction but now there is but a Spot laid out for us not
even enough for Bread for us Indians and hard is our Con-

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dition if we cannot have the freedom and Previledge but now
Some of the White People daily are Seeking to Defraud and
Deprive us of our lands nay we need not say seeking to do
it but they have already done it and keeps us from the Prev-
iledge of receiving any Benefit or Satisfaction for some of
our lands which if you our Trusty Brother suffers us thus to
be evilly treated we shall soon be quite Destroyed and Totally
Pushed out of this Nation but hope you our Brother will
never Suffer us thus to be Treated, We now present several
Belts of Peak as a Pledge of our Trust and Confidence in
you our beloved Brother we of this Nation are now in a Sor-
rofull and Deploreable Condition by being hindered of the
Previledges and Benefits of our Lands which is our Total
living and as wee the Poor Indians when many of us go
out in the woods a Hunting and build Cabbins to Defend us

from the Censure of the some of the White People

when we go out of them will set them on fire and burn them
down to the ground and leave us Destitute of any Cover to