All the President's children extend their hands to him. They the chiefs of the Ottawas at Arbre Croche pray and supplicate him to send them a black robe such as teach the Indians at Montreal. They wish to be instructed in the same principles of religion that their ancestors received at the old mission of St. Ignatius before 1765. They come to him as the first and principle chief of the United States and ask his aid in erecting a house of prayer. To that house they ask that he and a minister of the gospel who will instruct their children and they will give him land to cultivate and try to please him and obey his good advice. They will be pleased if he sends a priest of the Catholic religion as their ancestors had. They have confidence in him and shake his hand with all the affection of their hearts. Copied in the hand of Father Gabriel Richard - apparently a translation and adaptation of the one copied by Marianne Fisher. :: III-2-f Copy A.L.S. 1p. 4to., 4