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recomendation for Jacob Taylor &; Jonathan Thomas was read, the Indians expressed much satisfaction with the Quakers being among them and that they thought the Indians and the White People would in a short time be all alike, after the Indians had done speaking we reminded them of 20 Dollars that they had urged us to accept at the time of the division of their yearly anuity and that we thought it would be best to add as much to it, as would buy a yoke of oxen for the use of the Town which some of them seemed to consent too with some reluctance, H Jackson next informed them of his intentions of re-turning to his native Land and Corn-planter appointed two Indians to ac-company him as far as Cerestown, 55 miles up the River accordingly on 17th of this month he bid adieu to oldGenesinguhta and departed I bore him company to Cerestown as I had some business there and returned home in four Days having lodged comfortably two nights in the woods, and partook of a plentiful