Jonathan Shaw to Thomas Rotch, Cincinnati 10th Mo 26, 1818

              B-172-1 
        
	                   Cincinnati 10th mo 17.  1818
	Esteemed Friend,
    
             I arived here with my wife & children
	only on the 8th instant much recruited in health
	and strength;  the day that I parted with thyself
	& Jonathan Taylor I felt pretty much as I had since
	the day previous, very little appetite for nourishmt.
	of any kind,  but traveled well reached Waynesville
	the next morning & partook of a hearty breakfast
	of boiled milk bread etc which food was the first
	that I relished for several days before. I have since
	been of opinion my complain was a touch of
	what I called the sick stomach which in the neigh-
	bourhood of Maddriver effects the inhabitants and
	      is sometimes fatal in a few days to persons
	effected with it.
                         The purchase in Indiana was effected
	I think on the 6th inst. including the Lands on southeast
	side of the Wabash and from a point on that to Fort
	Wayne, and also a tract on the West side between
	the Vermilion And Tippecanoe Rivers extending 25 miles
	from the Wabash, for which the Indians are to get
	besides a reservation on the Wabash of 30 miles square, and a
	number of smaller ones in different situations   the Miamis
	15000.$ annually, the Delawares  4000$   the Weas  1150$