(seq. 13)

Extract from the Declaration and address of His Majesty's
suffering Loyalists to the people of America, agreed to and
published by the associated Loyalists in America, January 8th 1782
London, printed for T. Beckett Adelphi 1782.

Let it be known to all the favourers of American independence
throughout the world, and to those members of both houses
of the British legislature, and all others who have been
advocates for temperate measures in suppressing the American
Rebellion, that it was one of the first measures of Congress
to send Commissioners to the different tribes of Indians to
persuade them to a revolt, and if necessary, to take up the
hatchet - Colonel Lewis Morris of Morrissania and a number
of the Congress went on that embassy to the southern Tribes
and met the chief warriors at, or near Pittsburgh -

General Schuyler was sent to treat with the six nations, and
other northern tribes of Indians, and so early in the contest
as July and August 1775, a considerable number of Indians
were employed by Congress and served in the expedition under
General Montgomery against Canada; and more or less (of) the
Indians have been in the service and pay of the Congress ever
since ~ Let it also be rememberd, that upwards of sixteen
hundred Indians were at the same time assembled at Montreal
and requested permission to march against Montgomery and
his army, then at St. John's, and were refused by Sir Guy
Carleton.