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

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Brothers, We agree to give you our Smith’s Tools all complete; and one of our Friends can instruct you a little in using them; and also a share of our Implements of Husbandry, which we expect up by our Friend Jacob Taylor, whom we left behind, in order to bring them up by water. Brothers, We also are willing to en-courage you in building a Grist Mill, by agreeing to advance three Dollars to your one, of all the money actually to be paid for materi-als, mechanical Labour, and victualing the Workmen; you finding the