long as the Indians have such impressions on their minds, it will be exceeding disagreeable to have the superintendance of their affairs, and almost impossible for the work of reformation to go on amongst them, by their own misconduct they brought themselves in 1795 into a very deploreable situation, they had leased all their land granted by the oneidas, and (except David Fowler) the farms they had improved, if Government had not then interfered they would have been obliged to abandon the Country, under this view of the subject the Superintendants are lead to believe it would have been for the real benefit of the Indians, if in the first instance Government could have made it a condition, that if in the opinion of the Governor the Indians did not improve in morals and Agriculture, the Annuity should not be paid them, at least not till some improvementshould be discovered; they would then consider it as a favour when they received it, the principle of gratituted would be kept alive amongst them, and there would be a degree of emulation to deserve such a favour,
	The Superintendants respectfully submit these remarks to the Governors perusal, from an opinion that some alteration at a suitable time would be highly beneficial to the Indians.

Newyork 8 mo. 31. 1799
Thomas Eddy
Edmund Prioor