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John Peirce Notes, on a visit to Several Tribes of Indians, 1796

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Here we received Informa-tion from a Man who had been in the Indian Coun-try that the greater part of the Oneida, Onondaga &; Cayuga Reservations had been lately purchased by the State of New York: This Information a little alarmed us, and we concluded it expedient to wait on the Surveyor General at his Office in this Town; and two of us being named for that Ser-vice, we accordingly went to his Office, and found him a very obliging and inteligent man,