Here we received Informa-
tion from a Man who had
been in the Indian Coun-
try that the greater part
of the Oneida

, Onondaga &
Cayuga Reservations had
been lately purchased by
the State of New York:
This Information a little
alarmed us, and we concluded
it expedient to wait on the
Surveyor General at his Office
in this Town; and two of us
being named for that Ser-
vice, we accordingly went to
his Office, and found him
a very obliging and inteligent
man,