way to live comfortably in a
few years, having made con-
siderable Improvements in
farming &c. tho’ they have
great room still to improve,
especially in Industry: –

We united in believing this
not to be the place to make
our Settlement, tho’ the people
appear to us much more deserv-
ing than the Oneida’s

, the
place we have made choise
of for that purpose: we
nevertheless thought it right
to give them Some Encourage-
ment to move forward, and
set a good Example to their
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