r Settlement.-He goes to Grand River and dies.-Her Love for him, &c.-She is presented with the Gardow Reservation.-Is trou

es-tau-ge-au (which being interpreted signifies Black Coals,) offered me

ren, and providing food as we travelled through the wilderness. But the Chiefs of our tribe, suspecting from his appearance, actions, and

ason for my resolving to stay; but another, more powerful, if possible, was, that I had got a large family of Indian children, that I must take with me; and that if I should be so fo

iends, and live with my family as I had heretofore done. He appeared well pleased with my resolution, and informed me, that as that was my choice, I shou

of the Chiefs at Buffalo, to attend the great Council, which he expected would convene in a few years at farthest, and conv

the avarice of the old King inclined him to procure my emancipation, it would have been done with a pure heart and from good motives. He loved his friends; and was generally beloved. During the time that I lived in the family with him, h

e told me that my brother had spoken to him to see that I had a piece of land reserved for my use; and that then was the time for me to receive it.-He requested that I would choose for myself and describe the bounds of a piece that would

hat-hah, which interpreted, as Keeper-awake, opposed me or my claim with all his influence and eloquence. Farmer's Brother insisted upon the necessity, propriety and expediency of his proposition,

ce been known by the n

nds having been granted without his consent. Parrish and Jones at length convinced him that it was the white people, and

r down and up, and is applied to a hill that you will ascend and descend in passing it; or to a valley. It has been said that Gardow was the name of my husband Hiokatoo,

settled and for a number of years occupied by people of whom their fathers never had any tradition, as they never had seen them. Whence those people originated, and whither they went, I have never heard one of our oldest and wisest Indians pretend to guess. When I first came to Genishau, the ba

family. The land had lain uncultivated so long that it was thickly covered with weeds of almost every description. In order that we might live more easy, Mr. Parrish, with the consent of the chiefs, gave me liberty to lea