yet open’d their occupations, in part occa-
sion’d by some unsettlement, or uneasi-
ness in the Indian’s minds in regard to
the sale of some of their lands, & the run-
ning of their lines, commissioners having
been engaged in the business since the arrival
of our said freinds.

23rd

We went on foot this morning, Jacob
Taylor bearing us company, to the Tuscarora
& Stockbridge Indians, they lay south from
this place, up the Oneida creek, the
Tuscaroras two miles off, & the Stockbridge
4- The land is good with a considerable
bottom up the creek, on which the Tuscoro-
ras are scatteringly settled, most of them
having some enclosures of wheat, corn, mow-
ing ground & c. with a considerable number
of cattle & some horses, sheep, & swine, which
made a pretty clever appearance; but on
arriving at the Stockbridge settlement, the