among them with some improved
land and as much
more uncultivated land as such friends wish to
improve,
they will also build a school house & give their part
of
the annuity appropriated by Government for the
support of a
School Master, but the improvements
Friends may make on their lands
are to be left when
friends leave there unpaid for by the Indians;
& it
appearing to us that there was such a favorable
opening for settling a friend & his wife & a schoolmaster
among them, that we thought it advisable to accept
the houses they
afford & its wanting some repairs to
make it comfortable for a
family, we procured
materials & agreed with a Carpenter to do
the work,
Thomas Dean
to accomplish these repairs & some necessary expences
while at Oneida
the report obtained the solid attention of the Comtt
& afforded encouragement to persevere in the promotion of the
concern
*By a minute of the last Yearly Meeting of Women
friends it appears that
Jemima Bunken
Talcott
* And the Treasurer is directed to pay James Mott
sum of Nineteen Pounds therein mentioned