War department March 16^th 1793 Sir. I herewith transmit you, the copy of a letter received from an indian, by the name of David Fowler, who resides at Brotherton near [undecipherable], and who has lately been in this city with his son — This man has been introduced to me by Colonel Pickering, and he has made a request, as you will see by his letter, for some support from government, towards establishing a school, for the education of the indian children at Brotherton. I request that you will, particularly, examine into this business, and if it should be your opinion, that granting his request would conduce to the general object of the United States, the information and civilization of the Indians - you will allow, — a sum, not exceeding Fifty dollars per annum, to carry the same into effect, and which sum you will include in your future estimates. I have furnished David Fowler, with Thirty dollars to defray the expenses of himself and Son, to their own home I am Sir, with respect, Your obet: Servant [signature] General Israel Chapin [Copy] Philadelphia March 13 1793 Most Worthy Sir, The inhabitants of Brotherton are one hundred and thirteen, who are already up there and those who are gone, and those that are going 37 perhaps there will be near seventy, and they are in general poor, some of those families who are up to Brotherton, who have no Children begin to live considerable comfortable but the rest are poor, we moving up so far has been very hard for many of us and some of us were driven off from our plantations and lost all — during late wars. This is another reason why we are so poor — This general poverty obliges us to ask the assistance of the United States in supporting a School for the education of our Children on like manner as the Stockbridge Indians our neighbours have been affected. We are more White Student from them — The Subscriber and his Son have been travelling this [undecipherable] among the rem remnants of the tribes of Indians dwelling [undecipherable] at Brotherton. The land called Brotherton was given some years ago by the Oneidas in order to make an application to the Legislature of New York, to remove the White Intruders — This has put us to some expense and we shall be thankful for a small sum of money to enable us to travel home as soon as we shall be provided with an answer. This is from Your humble Serv David Fowler To the Honourable the Secretary of War. — Copy —