away again. I was to that the corn was all gone
when my people went down to receive the corn
they found it had almost all been removed
I then told the people not to receive it as there
would not be enough for them all- I am high
ly pleased to see you in this Country. You ex
pected to find your young men working in
our fields, instead of which you found them
working in a field by themselves, we would
like it much better if they would work in
our fields- The Chiefs not being present I
do not find myself authorised to say any
thing further on the subject-

Elisha Tyson

then observed that they appeared
desirous of receiving further assistance, & that
to extend more than one place. We told
your Chiefs when in Baltimore that we could
not assist them at more than one place at a
time, that we were poor but their father the
President was rich & able to help them, and
we had learned that he had promised them
his aid & we cannot understand why the young
men with their tools which their father had
sent were turned back when the expense was
nothing to the Indians yet it cost your father