Territory of Kansas 
County of Leavenworth
Cornelius C. Seth, being duly sworn, says, that he is chief of the Stockbridge
  Indians of Kansas Territory, that he has known Munsee Nation of Indians for
  many years; that they emigrated from Wisconsin to Kansas then the Indian
  Territory in the fall of the year 1839. There were one hundred and seventy
  Munsees who emigrated to Kansas at that time and they left but ten Munsees
  in Wisconsin. He further says that the Munsees, who came to Kansas, have always
  maintained a distinct national or tribal organization, separate from other
  nations or tribes, having their own chief and head men, and regulations, and
  still do and have though dwindled down to a comparatively small number by death
  in consequence of want and exposure; that none of their number have gone back
  to Wisconsin to his knowledge; that the Munsees, when they emigrated from Wisconsin
  to Kansas, bore there own expenses from Winnebago Lake to Prairie du Chien
  that provisions were very high priced, at that time, pork being from twenty
  five, to thirty dollars per barrel, and flour eighteen dollars; and other articles
  in proportion that the United States has never refunded to them, the sources
  they expended in emigration as stipulated in a Treaty made in Sep. 1839 by
  Albert Gollup and it’s Stockbridge  Munsee nations of Indians, that
  the Munsees are poor, needy and homeless; that he knows Gideon Williams, and
  Jacob Moonhouse to be their acknowledged chiefs 
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head men; that they and their people have not participated and do not participate
  in the annuities of any other Indian tribe or Nation and further says not 
Sworn to this seventh day of January A. D. 1858 
  Cornelius C. Seth
Done at the City of Wyandott in the county of Leavenworth and Territory of
  Kansas, this day and year above written. 
 William L McMeth
Notary Public