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When the treaty of Peace was made known to the Indians in 1783, it was received by them with great disgust, as they conceived that they had been abandoned by the King their Father. It was no easy Task to remove this Impression, at the same time that the Necessity of reconciling them to the Measure was evident, & in this I laboured with indefatigueable Industry.Upon the whole my Employments and Exertions during the Rebellion have been confined to the Indian Department, a Service which I trust upon Enquiry will be found to be by no means less arduous, less hazardous, or less laborious than any in the Course of the War. Of the importance of the Object, I had no right to Judge either as a Subject or a Soldier; in both Capacities I submitted this to the consideration of my Superiors',whose ideas of the Policy & even the necessity of conciliating the Affections of the Indians, & of steadily attaching them to the British Government will best appear from the unwearied pains which have been taken for that purpose from the first settlement of the Colonies.
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