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to your chiefs, and another copy will be leftwith our friends here, and if any of your young men agree to begin to work withour friends as we propose they may set theirnames to these writings, so that both sides may understand every thing plain and clear, andhave it all in writing to keep our memoriesbright. 6th month 25th 1798. Joshua Sharpless. John Pierce. William Gregory. Jacob Taylor. Jona Thomas. After reading these propositions, we let themknow in very plain terms that we were sensiblyaffected with the manifest coldness and in-attention which they had latterly appeared among-st them towards our friends; the ungratefulwhisperings and surmises that they had givenway to relative to our having a design to takeaway their lands from them: reminding themof the various steps we had taken amongstthem from the beginning: the great expensewe were at in mantaining our friends here a-mongst them; the improvements we weremaking on their land, which they saw with