The New Hampshire Gazette

PHILADELPHIA, March 8.

Extract of a letter from an officer in the army to his friend in this city.

"Greeneville, Jan. 21, 1794.

Peace, which has been the great wish of the Union, and which we have solicited so often without success, and been rejected by the belligerent tribes of savages in the most contemptuous manner, is now offered us, by one of those tribes, and will, I have no doubt, be joined by all.

A few days since, a white man, and an Indian, appeared in the vicinity of this cantonment, bearing a white flag. They were received by order of the commander in chief, and conducted to his quarters; where they opened their business, and informed that they came from the Delaware nation, with proposals of peace: That they were sanctioned by the Shawanese, and other hostile tribes, in their propositions, and wished to be informed if the General would meet them upon these terms, and shut the bloody path. An answer was deferred till the next day, and in the mean time, a gentleman was sent with the Indian, for two others, who had continued in the wood, about two miles from this place, and returned with them in the evening.

A council was held the next day, and after the Indians had laid before the commander in chief the purport of their visit, and had declared it to be the sincere wish of their brethren, to live in friendship with their brothers, and to close the road to the further effusion of blood; the council ended with an answer from his Excellency, purporting that it was his wish to enter into a treaty of peace—That the Indians had so often deceived us, it was impossible to believe they were now sincere—That if they were so, they would have no objection to his proceeding, and establishing forts upon the banks of the Lakes, for their security, and his own, where, whilst drinking the waters, he would be better enabled to meet them in council, and conclude the good work—and farther to testify the sincerity of their wishes, he insisted that the white prisoners now in their nation, should be brought accompanied by the head chiefs to this cantonment, in one month from the time of the departure of the said Indians, to which they acceded."