last year the young men you sent raised a fine
crop of corn. We were glad when we were going
home to hear them say it should be divided
among us, this was very pleasing to us I
thanked you in my heart for the aid you
had intended to our people. some days after
this we were informed that our Brothers inten
ded to gather the corn and put it up in a crib, we
then understood that the corn would be put up
& reserved for us until spring when it would be
of more use, That our brothers would return
and divide it among us this When John Shaw

arrived he told us that when our people were
in need of corn to come down & get it. I told
J Shaw that the Indians considered the corn as
given to them last fall & that they would not
be so well satisfied as if the Indians were
assembled & it was given to them all at once
I then told him not to divide it in the way
he proposed but to let it remain until the arrival
of Wm Wells. Shaw observed that what I said was
true but that he thought a number might suffer
for want of it during the absence of Wm Wells & that
the said Wm Wells had requested him to lend him
some of the corn, When Friends & Wm Wells came & went