We are, gentlemen, with great respect,
Your most humble servants, P. Schuyler, Volkert P. Douw, Turbot Francis.
To which the committee returned the following answer:—
Gentlemen,—Your polite invitation for us to join in paying a complimentary visit to the Indians this afternoon at five o'clock, we accept of, and shall for that purpose attend at Cartwright's at the hour appointed.
We are, gentlemen, your most humble servants. By order of the committee, Abraham Yates, Jr. Chairman.
The sachems and warriors of the Six Nations being assembled, the Commissioners, attended by the committee and principal gentlemen of the city of Albany, met them, and addressed them as follows:—
Brethren op the Six Nations,—We, the deputies appointed by the Twelve United Colonies, the decendants of Quedar, [FN] and the gentlemen of the city of Albany, congratulate you on your arrival here. They are glad to see you well, and thank the great God that he suffers us to meet.
[FN] "Quedar," the name which the Indians had given Governor Stuyvesant—being probably, the result of their effort to pronounce the name "Peter."