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Halliday Jackson's Journal, 1806

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farm -- He is setled some distance from the River in the woods by himself -- and hath a neat little house built with a Pannel Door and Jack windows on a stately eminence at the head of a rich flat, and hath made a beginning to Clear land -- We return'd to the cold Spring about twelve Oclock and found the Indians in Counsel --In about an hour after they called us into the Counsel room, and after being seated one of the Chiefs call'd Mush stood up and spoke to us nearly as follows, Brothers When your young men came first to live amongst us they saw we were poor, they took pity upon us, and they told us they came to assist us -- At first we did not fully under- -stand what your intentions were, but after consulting among ourselves we thought it was, a great thing that you should come to live amongst us, to instruct us, being more than white people had ever done before. and we concluded to try you one, or five years