but continue to do whatever is in your minds:
and if we dont improve, the fault will be our
own, we cant blame you.

Brothers.
We will do all we can about
the blacksmith and about the farming: we
cant force our young men, but we will try
all round, all of us will try to get some young
men to learn this trade, and to learn farming.

Brothers.
Now we thank you for the pains
you have taken for poor Indians, and we thank
you for what you have said to us: and we will
have council amongst ourselves tomorrow, after
we have tried what we can do; and then we
will speak to you again about it.

Brothers.
This is all we got to say at pres-
ent.

We expressed our satisfaction with
what they had said, and then the council concluded.

26th, 3rd day.

Agreeable to the arrangements of
7th day last, John Sergent

in company with
John Quincy and Solomon, from Stockbridge
came to Oneida, in order to settle the accounts
respecting the mill Friends built there,
which was amicably done.

About 5 o'clock this evening the Oneida

chiefs