to your chiefs, and another copy will be left
with our
friends here, and if any of your
young men agree to begin to
work with
our friends as we propose they may set their
names
to these writings, so that both sides may
understand every
thing plain and clear, and
have it all in writing to keep our
memories
bright.
After reading these propositions, we let them
know in very plain terms
that we were sensibly
affected with the manifest coldness and
in-
attention which they had latterly appeared among-
st them
towards our friends; the ungrateful
whisperings and surmises that they
had given
way to relative to our having a design to take
away their
lands from them: reminding them
of the various steps we had taken
amongst
them from the beginning: the great expense
we were at in
mantaining our friends here a-
mongst them; the improvements we
were
making on their land, which they saw with