Jonathan Shaw letter to Thomas Rotch, Cincinnati 7th mo 25. 1819

               
  B-172-4
                            Cincinnati 7th mo 25 1819
        Esteemed Friend
             I am yet without information rela-
  tive to the disposition of the Sandusky Agency, or
  any other measures for protecting or civilizing the Indi-
 -an Tribes, although the sum of Ten thousand Dollars
  was appropriated for that object by Congress at their
  last Session, yet I regret that I should have been so
  much disappointed taht the President should have shewed
  so little zeal in attending to that important object,
  I cannot discover thro' the whole of his late [illegible] that 
  the subject has recd any attention from him, although the
  National Inteligence observed about the time of the President
  leaving Washington that there was many objects of great im-
  -portance to be attended to by the President. One of which
  was the protection and civilizing of the Indian Tribes, but
  I cannot see that any steps have been taken or about to be
  taken for selecting suitable persons for the very important task
                              are
  and I am sensible that such ^very scarce.
       I have [illegible] told thee before consulted to receive
  office of an [illegible] Agent for Sandusky, and had the flatter
  -ing idea given me that there remains scarcely a doubt of my
  succeeding, persuant to that impression I have held myself
  in such a state of readiness as to leave home at a short notice
  although it might be somewhat trying to part with good society, was