1IV. Henry Dearborn to Chiefs of the Delawares and Shawnees, 10 February 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Friends and Brothers, The deputation appointed by you to visit the Seat of Government have arrived and been welcomed by your father the President of the United States with cordiality; they have spoken and he has heard all the representations that they were instructed by you on behalf of their Nations to make to him, in his name I have answered them in sincerity and truth, and when they shall...