artfully contrived the conveyance, that he could apply it to his own use,
and by alienating his right, destroy the claim of his children.

Having secured the land, in that way, to himself, he sent his two Indian
girls to Trenton, (N.J.) and his white son to Philadelphia, for the
purpose of giving each of them a respectable English education.

While his children were at school, he went to Philadelphia, and sold his
right to the land which he had begged of the Indians for his children to
Robert Morris. After that, he sent for his daughters to come home, which
they did.

Having disposed of the whole of his property on the Genesee river, he took
his two white wives and their children, together with his effects, and
removed to a Delaware town on the river De Trench, in Upper Canada. When
he left Mt. Morris, Sally, his squaw, insisted upon going with him, and
actually followed him, crying bitterly, and praying for his protection
some two or three miles, till he absolutely bade her leave him, or he
would punish her with severity.

At length, finding her case hopeless, she returned to the Indians.

At the great treaty at Big Tree, one of Allen's daughters claimed the land
which he had sold to Morris. The claim was examined and decided against
her in favor of Ogden, Trumbull, Rogers and others, who were the creditors
of Robert Morris. Allen yet believed that his daughter had an indisputable
right to the land in question, and got me to go with mother Farly, a half
Indian woman, to assist him by interceding with Morris for it, and to urge
the propriety of her claim. We went to Thomas Morris, and having stated to
him our business, he told us plainly that he had no land to give away, and