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wampum as their manner is when they refuse what is requested by telling them that the Dish was given to them, and their Children, and that the spoon should never be taken out of their mouths. Having sketched out a plan in writing for the settlement at Oneida, three of us went over on 7th day to read it to the Chiefs; that they might have an opportunity of considering it before we met the whole Nation in council, for a final determination. They then seemed well satisfied tho their expectations had evidently been raised to something more ostensible than our present proceedings; but on second Day Morning just as we were setting out, a Runner came in with a note informing us that they were gone to Fort Stanwix, to complain of the Surveyors for overrunning the boundaries of the last Sale, which will probably delay our business some days. Accept my love as usual, dear Father, Mother, Wife, Brothers, and Sisters; please to give it freely to all enquiring Friends; and remember me particularly to the Families of John Drinker, James Pemberton, John Thomas, Owen Biddle, Anne Attmore, Henry Drinker, Joshua Howell, John Parish, Samuel Smith, Samuel P Grieffitts, and the Widows Foulke and Shoemaker. Jos. Sansom Jacob Taylor has just arrived with letters from two of my best Friends, they do my heart good.