Report-1851, August 25

Aug. 25 [1851].

   The Delawares have disposed of their education fund for several years yet to come; it being vested in the Shawnee mission M. L. school, They have, for some cause not correctly known to me, refused to send their children to the Shawnee mission school, which their fund sustains, for the space of a year, I feel in great hope that, with my aid, the Shawnee mission superintendent will be able to get back to his school some twenty or more of the Delaware children.

   The Delaware mill, which was built by the Methodist missionary board as a boon for their education fund for a term of years, is now a complete wreck. I have visited it, and recommended the chiefs to retain $3000 out of the money they received from the Wyandottes, which they did, for the purpose of rebuilding the mill: but whether they will expend it for that purpose is, I am fearful, uncertain. The tribe is anxious it should be rebuilt, as there is not a mill in the Indian country near, but the chiefs seem to feel indifferent.

Thomas Mosely Jr., Indian Agent for the Kansas Agency

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[Reports of Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 1851, 1852, p. 80.]