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and three weeks amongst the different Tribes in the Oneida Reservation, we have not been able, with the greatest Assiduity and Address that we have been capable of, to bring our Business into any tolerable State of fix-edness and arangement until the present Time; for we have indeed found it tedious, to a trying Degree, in doing Busi-ness with these people. We have attended general Councils of the Stockbridge, Oneida, Tuscorora, and Brother-town’s, as there are these four distinct Tribes living on this Reservation; and have spared no reasonable pains to make our-