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discouragements which you have had to encounter Brothers! I believed the building of a mill was thebest thing you can do for my people, I have thereforeasked it of you; I think it will encourage them toraise large crops of corn &; perhaps wheat, and it willcertainly afford a great convenience to those whoreside in the neighbourhood of my Village Brothers! I cannot omit again expressing to you mythanks- I shall carry your words home &; repeatthem to my people. He then retired Balto. 1 mo 5 1809 At a Meeting of the committee on Indianconcerns present 12 members Hendricks Aupomut a chief of the MohickenyTribe of Indians attended &; informed the committeethat he had requested the present opportunitywith them in order to solicit assistance&; advice in the business which had occasionedhis present visit to those parts, he then comminicated an interesting account of the presentsituation &; disposition of those Indians whoreside on White river of his future prospectsin regard to them and informed that a partof those Indians consisted of the scattered remainsof the Nanticokes who he said still possessed certain Lands on the Eastern Shore of this Statewhich it was their desire might be disposed of