that any of you should pretend
asto [?] A new Dish to themselves:
Brothers, we can’t agree to this;
for if we should give some of
you a new dish, it may be
that Dish may be made of
Wood, and then it will soon
get broke, and you will
have no Dish againt: No Brothers,
we will not do this, but we
will try to mend your spoon
for you, so that you may all

This wooden Dish represented the
Disposition of the Complainants
to sell and lease Lands to the
white people, for which they
have been noted.