Council; then proceeded, in
substance as follows:

Brothers:

You remember your
former situation when you
were in Distress, having leased
all your Lands, at old Stock-
bridge

in New England, one
piece after another, to the
white people, 'till at last
you had no Land left for
yourselves. You know; Brothers,
in this Distress, we your elder
Brother took pity upon you,
and gave you this Dish, that
you might put a spoon into
it and live; and in order