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the young Men likes it and we like it they may stay longer. Brothers if your young men stay here we want them to learn our young men to read and write Brothers two of you are a going home again if they hear any thing about our land or our money they must write to these young men have and they must tell us if we are like to cheated After Complanter had closed the foregoing speech we informed them that we were satisfied with what they had said; and proposed to them that they should let us have a good piece of land to work in order to set them an example and to raise bread for ourselves to eat but that the land should still be theirs, and all the improvements we had on it would also be theirs when we left it; and in order to know where would be best for us to settle we told them we must look about their Land and go to the other village and see the Land there, and desired that some of their Chiefs would go with us and show us their land all which they readily agreed to; we also informed them that the carpenters tools