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should be procured &; placed in the hands of Absalom Hatfield for the use of the Indians, the Committee entrusted with the care of assisting Absalom were authorized to procure such a number as they should think requisite. And as it appeared by information from the friends above mentioned, that considerable uneasiness exists amongst the Oneidas of the South Settlement relative to a gore of land running far into their settlement, which in the division of the reservation had become the property of Indians of the other part, and by them sold as they understand to the State, from an apprehension that the land may be sold to &; settled by white people to their great injury; in that they solicited the care of Friends for their relief; the subject was referred to Richard Mott, Willet Hicks, Matthew Franklin, Samuel Parsons, John Murray &; John Barrow; who are desired to give attention thereto.