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of their Land and thought it very good, and well situated for cultivating, to which the chief replyed, that him and his people had it in contemplation for some time past and was very desirous of being instructed therein, that they had a prospect of building a Sawmill and had come to a conclusion, that every young man should advance a part of his annuity from Government into the hands of a treasurer until they had enough to build the Mill, that they were very desirous of having some per-son amongst them to instruct their children but knew not where to apply, for when the Quakers came amongst the Indians to settle Cornplanter kept us among his people, and now they saw and heard what we had done here and that made them anxious to go to work, but they wanted some tools to go on with but ware not able to purchase them; and if they should succeed in build-ing the Saw Mill they would want some instruction how to go on with it We then informed him of the motives of our society in settling amongst Indians, that our prospect was not from any lucrative views but from