Miami Nation Upon Receiving Belt of Wampum from Shawnee, 1762

My Brother, according to your desire and Treaties with us, I have consulted with our Chief Warriors in respect to this Belt of Wampum which you discovered to be in the village and we all think it best to deliver it to you so that you may send it to your General; though we were not to let this belt be known of till it arrived at Ouiattonen; And then we were all to Rise & put the English to death all about this place, and those at the other places.

This Belt we received from the Shawnee Nation, they received it from the Delawares, and they from the Senicas who are very much enraged against the English.  As for the Indian that was the beginner of this we cannot tell him, but he was one of their Chiefs, and one that is always doing mischief, and the Indian that brought it to this place was our Chief who was down at the Grand Council held in Pennsylvania Last Summer.  We desire yon to send this Clown to your General and George Croghan, and let them find out the man that was making this mischief.  For our parts we will be still and she no more notice of their mischief, neither will we be concerned in it, if we had ever so much mind to kill the English, there is always some Discovery made before we can accomplish our design.

This is all we have to say only you must give our young warriors some Paints, some Powder & Ball and some Knives, as they are all going to war against our Enemies the Cherokees. I think to the best of my knowledge this is the contents of what was said at the Delivery of the Belt now sent.