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particularly where the State road goe[s] within 2 or 3 miles of this place, and the White People are settleing on it fast, and they haveing put up several Houses both to the East, and West of the Castle have been put up this Spring and we saw a number Cattle in the Woods within two Miles of their Corn &;c. There are several good houses in the Castle, with Glass Windows and large Piazza or Portico’s before the door, one of the Chief’s Houses is painted red, and looks Showy, -- The main Road from Albany to the Western Country goes through their enclosure, there being a gate hung on each side, many travellers stop and Stay all night at the Red house, it is called a Tavern. -- Their houses are ge- nerally floored, with Chimneys at one end 26th Part of this afternoon was spent in Settleing with the Stockbridge Indians concerning the Mill friends built them and in the evening we had a Council with the Oneida’s, in order for them to give us an Answer to the proposals we made them Yesterday, they informed