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care of most, some few excepted, who had more prudence than to sell their Cloathing just as winter approaches and that their money they received appeared a greater injury than Service, that it was more frequently as is the saying Eaten up before they received it than otherwise that they have to redeem their Guns of the White people when received they receive their money. After our opportunity with them return'd and staid all Night at Danfords This morning the Eighth Ninth I got a mile on our way by Sunrise, Breakfasted at Moses Carpenter’s 15 miles, after which we rode to Henry More’s 12 miles who lives about two miles from the ferry Road over the Lake Cayuga Lake, towards Scipio Town, where we Bated &; got our Diners after which went near the settlement of the Cayuga’s 5 miles to Frederick Geerhearts. This morning for about nine mile we rode on the Onondago reservatio sold to Government last year, Surveyors employ'd now in dividing it into Plantations Lotts the rest of the way, except near Geerhearts on the Military Lands, very little improv'd but very little improv'd, mostly in the hands of Land Jobers who purchased them of the