SW_JC1796_020

24th: held our little weekday Meeting in our Landlord’s Barn, in the after noon committed stated our propositions in writing which respect to what we want the Oneida to grant that they and Ourselves things might be upon Certainties next morning 25th: three of our company went called a Counsel of theSeveral of their Chiefs Read them and which were Interpreted which seem'd to be agreeable to them, they requested to have them until Second day the day appointed to again meet them in Counsel they had them accordingly J. Pierse and Myself spent part of the day in Visiting the Sick and Aged, who Received with with marks of great friendship Acknowledging it a sure mark of our great friendship to them the Poor Indians when we had left our homes &; had Rode so far to see them, As a mark of their friendship Gratitude one Instance verifies, one of the persons Women, a widow who had before invited us to see her sick sister had sent a present of half a very good lamb this morning, She has Seven Children the youngest about two years old &; her sick Sister who had been so for near Two years, there is her family she appears to live as Comfortably as any of her neighbors, She told us she had ten sheep, &; that she had the wool spun, &; was afterward inform'd by their Minister she last year made fourteen yards of Cloth, when we were willing to pay her for the Lamb we had Receiv'd from her but wish'd she might kill no more for Us, that we wanted them the Indians to get a great many more Sheep so that they might make their own Cloathing, she said she did not propose killing any more