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T. Evans on behalf of Philadelphia Committee in relation to removal of Indians west of the Mississippi Philad. 2nd Mo. 23. 1838 My dear frd, We yesterday Rec. a letter from a number of the chiefs of the Indians Settled on the Allegheny Reservation in your State, inform- ing that Schemerhorn U.S. agent had been there &; held a council in which he told them they must sell their lands &; remove to the West of the Mis- sissippi--that the U.S. government was resolved to remove them from where they now were--that every chief who would influenced 100 persons to agree to go, should receive $500 dollars premium, &; that the government had resolved to stop their annuity until they removed westward--that those who removed would receive the annuitybut those who did not would get nothing. Aided by the Ogden Company he used every exertion to prevail on them to assent to the measure, &; after having occupied nearly the whole time of the Council for 8 days, he requested an answer. The chiefs &; head men were