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Jonathan Thomas His Book 1798

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a certificate is produced to them signed by two of your Chiefs certifying that the school has been kept steadily for the length of time above mentioned for payment, the Tuscaroras being admitted to partake equally of the Advantages of this school.— Brothers We further propose for your encouragement in Agriculture, Industry etc. that for the term of two years from the third month next, we will give the following premiums to any individual Indian of the Stockbridge or Tuscarora Nation living on this reservation upon the conditions hereinafter mentioned: 1st For every 50 bushels of wheat raised in one year within said term by any one farmer of either of these two nations, on his own land nor worked by any white people the sum