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to part with the residue in exchange for a full supply of domestic animals, implements of husbandry and other necessaries adapted to their improving condition and this: I some ago intimated to Wm. Morris appeared to me to afford the only chance of extinguishing the Indian title to any of the lands he had bought of Massachusetts. With respect to the Cayuga reservation I had determined to give no countenance to a lease of it, John Richardson applied to me about it before the Indians arrived. I told him that the pre-emption right was in the State of New York - that if the Cayugas could lease it for five years they might for ten twenty or a hundred or a thousand, and thus defeat the pre-emption right of the State. I heard no more of it until a few days before the