ointed by the Yearly Meeting of Philadelphia
Dear Friends
The committee on Indians concerns
appointed by the Yearly Meeting of Baltimore
being of opinion that a reciprocal advantage
would arrise and their wishes be promoted by
a free correspondence with other committees of
the same nature have for this reason written to
you at the present time and also being fully
persuaded that the great work we have in hand
may be better accomplished by an union of
sympathy & sentiment, than perhaps it could by
either committee alone
In the progress of the arduous undertaking
of assisting the Indian
natives in agriculture &
other useful arts of civil life this
committee
have sent several deputations of its members
into
their Country first to ascertain their disposi-
tions & wants
& after that to render them such
assistance & instruction as
was in our power, &
we have the satisfaction to inform that
from
the report of the last of those deputations, our
efforts
are like to be crowned with as much success
as (from the means in
our power to employ) we had