As You enter our Meeting Place with wett Eyes, & sorrowfi,]] Hearts, in Conjunction wnth our Bretheren the Mohawks, we do with this stiing of Wampum wipe away your tears, and asswage your greif, that you may speak freely in this Assembly

-- Here they gave the String of Wampum -- Here follows what I said to the General Convention of the Six Nations att Onondaga spoke by Hendrick the Chief of the Mohawks -- Bretheren of the Six Nations --

The great conscern I am under for the loss of our three great and beloved Brothers, Caghniagarota, Onughsadego, and Gahusquerowana, who in their time made Your Assembly compleat makes it incumbent on me to condole their death, and as it is a great losstoUsin general, I do by these three Belts of Wampum dry up your tears that we may see each other, clear your Throats that ^e may speak together and wash away their Blood out of our Sight, and cover their Bones with these Strowd Blankets.

C Here gave the 3 Belts of Wampum I and three Blankets of Strowds -- Bretheren of the Six Nations --

I am now to acquaint You that the Indisposition of the present Governour, and the expectation of y® Sudden Arrival of a new one, has occasicyied the interview proposed at Albany between You & him, this Summer to be deferred, upon which I am commissioned to treat with You, and at the Same time to Assure You that ye Succeeding Governour will meet You as soon as he conveniently can, with presents as usual. You will then have an opertunity of laying before him w*ever is amiss, which will be redressed you mav 'lepend on without any unnecessary delay, till then I expect, r'' oi" ^ iJ will live in perfect Harmony with Your Bretheren the English.