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the Quakers that they might go, as the tribe did not 

 wish to have them on their ground, or to have their 

 children taught in that manner. About four years 

 before this the oldest Indians removed into Catta- 

 raugus County, New York. I asked him if he did 

 not regret to have them all leave him. He replied 

 that he was not sorry to have them go, as they were 

 better situated on their own land, and the young men 

 who were left would soon be gnywn up to take the 

 places of those who had gone. He also said that 

 they were not willing to be ruled by him, and he 

 wa3 quite willing that they should leave. lie asked 

 me what I thought of the Quakers. I said that I 

 liked them very much, as they were a very sober 

 people, and did not drink or swear. He did not 

 coincide with me in my favorable opinion of them. 

 In the year 1817, as Corn planter with his son and 

 myself were going down the river in a canoe from 

 the state of New York, where we had been at work, 

 I inquired of his son, Henry O'Bayle. if his father 

 would be willing to talk about the wars and battles 

 in which he had been engaged. On being ques- 

 tioned, he replied that it was a subject upon which 

 he was fond of conversing. I asked him what was 

 the first battle he was ever engaged in. He replied 

 that it waa at Braddock'e defeat He was then sev- 

 enteen years of age, and engaged with the French 

 and Indians against the British. He said that there 

 were about six thousand Indians, and some few 

 French. He supposed there were about double the 

 number of Indians that there were of white men 



