Wabacommegat thank'd me and said that the dninkin Quarrel on the Carrying place was forgot and no more thought of, as it was rum did it.

July 20th. Aseushan one of the head warriors of the Senecas came to me told me he was verry Sick and begged he might be cur'd ; as the white People are better doctors then the Indians, and said he would remain here untill he should Recover, I told him he might stay here and we should do wdiat we Could towards removeing his Complaint, he left this post ye Sl^t July.

Jiu<ruK l^t. Received a Message from Castesh by two Young Seneca warriors, acquainting me he would be here in Three days.

AugK 5th. Castesh arrived with seventy Seneca Men Women and Children : the Chief Came to visit me, and said as I acquainted them of my arrival here, they came to see me. that the Shawanese had killed a number of the uper Nation Indians somewhere near

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Fort Pitt, that two of their squas meaning the Sinecas had been kill'd lately by the upper Nations near the same place, and also told me there Was a great many Men with Arms arrived at the above Fort. I told them I was glad to see them but sorry to here that the Indians were so idle as to destroy there own flesh and blood, as to the People in arms that were going to Fort Pitt, I could not with Certainty give any account of, but I believed they were going to disposses some People that were living on the Indian lands with out haveing any right so to do. Castesh answered that might be so, as them people were still living on the Indian lands.