capable of doing a good deal of work
visit to John Sergent, their Treasurer presented our
bill of advance toward their Mill, & were informed
there was not Money enough in his hands to settle it.
we also discover’d that he had indulged hopes, notwith-
standing the clearness of our articles, of retaining a
considerable part of what was in his
some other appropriations to him more desirable.
We gave him to understand that when we entered into
articles, we always expected to fulfil them on our parts
& we wished others to do so by us, adding, that our design
was to assist & encourage them in getting a Mill,
which we had effected & if government had advanced
nothing towards it, we should not have been hard
with them, about their deficiency in fulfilling their
part of the Agreement, but as Government had now
advanced so considerable a Sum, we were most easy
to receive our own, agreeable to the Article, & ap-
propriate it to those of their Brethren, who appear’d
more necessitous, He readily acknowledged the just-
ness of this conclusion & promised to attend at Oneida
on third day next, in company with such of the
Stockbridge chiefs & others as were concerned in this
bu-