Cherokee Message to the Six Nations

              At the State House on Tuesday the 27th June 1758
Present,
Richard Peters
Israel Pemberton
Charles Thomson

Indians,
Kool(?) or Moyeman & Heneley two Cherokee Captains
deputed to go on a message to the six Nations.
Seneca George, five Cherokee Indians
John Hart & James Crawley Interpreters.

Kool who has been four Weeks sick & recovers but slowly said,
Last night we concluded to send to Winchester for two of our old Men
to come to my assistance & try if they could cure me, but now we have
alter'd our Minds & determine to apply to our elder Brother, namely
Seneka George. I am now entirely well as to the Pain in my Breast
and Side. Nothing, he said, hurts me but this Pain in my Thigh
& I will apply to Seneka George for the Cure. I desire Seneka 
George may have two Bottles of Rum. He thinks it necessary
for my service & designs it as an Offering.

Mr. Peters let him know that he had said Yesterday if the
Secretary would attend, he would explain the Belts to the(?) Mohawks
& that now he was come for that Purpose.

He desired it might be some other Time, as they were not now
going & he wanted his Brother to attend his Cure. But after
pausing some time he altered his Mind & said he has often
promised to Morrow & to Morrow & he would now do it. Upon
which Heneley open'd the Casket with(?) the Belts & Strings of
Wampum & several Pipes & Kool after sorting them taking in
his hand two Strings spoke.

First he related that he came from home with a Party of Cherokees
to go to war last Spring, & whilst he was at one of the Forts on
the Frontiers of this Province some of the Chiefs of the Six Nations
then at Lancaster sent Deputies to them on which he was
appointed to go with those Deputies into the Six Nations
Country & on his Return home with the Messages he received 
from the Six Nations, the Chiefs of his Nation said to him, "at your