Entitled "Peter Pond and William Steedman's communications to the Secretary of War, 1792," this is a report of their journey to Niagara, their experiences among the New York Indians, principally the Onondagas, Senecas, and Oneidas, and their account of a council meeting at Buffalo,

Attached to this report is a communication from the Governor of the Western Territory made in 1788 regarding settlement of the Indian Tribes north of the Ohio River.