a friend who lives near Georgetown

, having informed
us that 8 or 10 families of other Indians dispersed
in hunting parties on the braches of Tuscrawas
were very desirous of being instructed in farming
and were in want of a temporary supply of
Provisions, we believed it wright to turn our
attention to them, and having sent for some of their
active men to meet us, we were at last prevented
from an interview by the ice running in the Ohio.

After leaving a supply for their relief when they
could get over the river we returned to redstone and
engaged with a smith to make a few farming utensils

We have not received any answer on the
subject communicated to their chiefs last year, and
have reason to believe it is accasioned by the alarm
spread among them last spring, which probably
prevented its being laid before their general council
which is held at that season of the year at the
lower Sandusky Town

—and from the information received in
this journey we are free to inform the committee as
our judgement that it would tend to increase among the
western Indians a confidence in us as a people if Friends
could believe it right to send a few suitable persons
to attend next spring at their general Council in