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residence and have to remove further West, there is scarce a doubt they would have for white neighbours a profligate people compared with those amongst whom they now reside--in short such a step appears likely to effect their ruin as a nation The Land in question is withing your State, and your Legislature did several years since secure to the Brotherton Indians the Tract on which they now reside; if any mode could be devised by which the Alleghany and Cattarogus Reservations with a part of the Buffaloe could be permanantly secured to the Seneca Nation it might be rendering them an almost incalculable benefit--we hope there is no danger of an immediate Sale, as from the tenor of our last advices from that Country there appears a general aversion to it, and were the Nation at large to be consulted and their judgement to govern we should have little anxiety as to the result-- but where a few individuals not remarkable for their industry of sobriety, may be tampered with, and a hasty indiscreet act of theirs dispossess the whole Nation of all their Territory, it occasions uneasiness and we know not how soon such an event will take place. We are informed your Committee for the Improvement &;c of the Indian Natives meet next week, should you believe the import of this proper to engage their attention you are at liberty to lay it before them-- we are a sub Committee appointed to obtain such information as is likely to be useful on this interesting subject--we should like to receive from you the heads of the Act securing the Brothertons Land with any advice which presents, in time to lay the same before our general Committee which stands adjourned to the 19th of next month on whose behalf we are Your Friends Tho. Stewardson Thomas Wistar Isaac Bonsall