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Gentlemen
The cheifs of the six nations
being now about to strike an important
Blow in every quarter of your province
And knowing that there are many
friends of Government must with those
that they esteem rebels & avowed
enemies & being Unwilling that a
General [illegible Saeriffea] of friend & foe should
be made without Distinction have condisended
to Give you this friendly Warning that
all that will come in to them or that will
Lay down their Arms Although many
of them either thro force or from mistaken
Idea may have acted contrary to the
Intrests that they Espouse shall be kindly
by them as Brothers & they & their
families shall be [illegible poss screen?] from that
Distruction which must inevitable
attend so Universal a [illegible poss Deprendation]