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way to live comfortably in a few years, having made con-siderable Improvements in farming &;c. tho’ they have great room still to improve, especially in Industry: – We united in believing this not to be the place to make our Settlement, tho’ the people appear to us much more deserv-ing than the Oneida’s, the place we have made choise of for that purpose: we nevertheless thought it right to give them Some Encourage-ment to move forward, and set a good Example to their less