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

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17th. The forepart of this Day some of our Company were engaged in writing and digesting our Concerns, whilst others were usefully employed in the completion of a domes-tic Improvement, some Days ago begun. In the afternoon two of us, at the request of the Indians, attended a Council of the Oneida's, Tuscorora's &; Stockbridge's together, which we found to be on Business of their own unconnected with ours: The business was con-ducted with great Decorum &;