After reading these propositions we let them know in
very plain terms that we were sensibly affected with
the manifest coldness & inattention which had latterly
appeared amongst them towards our friends; the un-
grateful whisperings & surmises that they had given
way to, relative to our having a design to take away their land
from them, reminding them of the various steps we had
taken amongst them from the beginning, the great
expence we were at in maintaining our freinds here
amongst them, the improvements we were making on
their lands, which they saw with their own eyes, the
wheat & the clover that they saw growing where there
used to be none, the Barn that was built, & the house
that was on its way, that all these things could not
be done without a great deal of Money; that we had
never asked them for any nor never should that we
had never asked them for any of their land, nor would
we take it from of them if they would offer it to us, that
we had told them before & would now tell them again
that when ever they were tired of us, & wished us away
only tell us so, and we would leave both their land
& their Country, that we had no inducement to stay
here amongst them spending both our time & money
but purely for their good.
Shortly