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Beyond Penn's Treaty

Minutes of the Committee on Indian Concern No 1

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We were accompanied by James Mott

in the
visit to Brothertown and Stockbridge, and by
Joseph Frost and Sarah Collins to all the Tribes,
who united with us in furnishing the articles
above mentioned, as also in the propositions made
to the Committee

Thomas Willis
Anne Willis
Esther Griffin

The attention of the Committee was satisfactory,
and the appropriations made by them Committee
approved of; and they having suggested the
propriety of engaging a person to instruct the
Oneida

& Stockbridge Tribes in agriculture &
it was the sense of the Committee that it would be
expedient to procure a friend's family to reside
amongst them, and if they cannot be found a
suitable man friend & James Mott, Gideon Seaman
John Murray, Abraham J Underhill & Thomas
Willis
were appointed to attend to the service and
authorized to engage a family or person accordingly.