Note 9 — Chapter IV · FROM HER TAKING CHARGE OF A SCHOOL AT CREEK-PATH, UNTIL HER SICKNESS.

This Society first sent its annual collections to the mission at Dwight, in the Arkansas. But the last year their collection was devoted to the spread of the Gospel among the Osages. The Cherokee woman, who proposed the resolution to appropriate the money in this way, observed to the Society, “The Bible tells us to do good to our enemies, and I believe the Osages are the greatest enemies the Cherokees have.” The sum was about ten dollars.