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Albany 3 Mo 19th 1819 Esteemed Friends Richard R Lawrence &; Allen Clap David Hill the subject of the petition, one of the Onondaga Indians, in com- pany with Eleazor Williams missionary to the Oneida Indians, say they were advised to Call on some friends in Albany in order to get advice respecting the property of the Sd. David Hill going to New York to solicit friends in person as he had though of doing, yet considering it a very considerable undertaking, and was willing to return if friends here advised thereto and if they would undertake to forward the petition with the certificates and recommendations the said David Hill states that Gidion Simson and other friends stay'd at his house this last season who might be consulted. And the Missionary E Williams states that he knows D Hill well, and that he is a very smart man for business and that he seems to have good judgment in what he undertakes and further that he believes it would be likely to have a very good effect on other young men of his tribe if he was incoraged and enabled to prosecute business