Dwellings for themselves the ensuing
Summer
& request our assistance and instruction therein,
and we
are not without a hope that some of them
will take up farming also, altho’
the want of Do-
mestic animals is a great impediment in
their way—
Five of us have been mostly employ'd in
Mechanical Business at our
Settlement the
late Winter have prepared Plows and other
necessary
implements of Husbandry, and also
made a good deal of Cooper ware and
other
Articles which we exchange with they Indians
for Sugar and other
house necessaries—
We have lately had some serious considera
tions about taking an Indian Lad
as we
think it may tend to the promotion of
the work & that he may
be useful to us, but
are willing to submit the matter to you—
We are also united in Judgement, that
if a well-qualified family should
offer they
may be encouraged to come forward this