The Big Tree Treaty, or the Last Council on the Genesee

407 pp. "It is a simple story, told in plain language of the struggle the commissioners had who comprised the party of the Holland Land Company, when they came to the Genesee Valley to buy the Indians land. The leader of this party was Thomas Morris, a son of Robert Morris, of Revolutionary fame, Colonel Jeremiah Wadsworth of Connecticut, appeared as commissioner of the United States. And Colonel Shepherd in behalf of the commonwealth of Massachusetts. The agent of the Holland Land Company was William Bayard of New York."--Preface