the committee
adjourns to meet on the 7th day
preceeding our next quarterly meeting at the
7th hour
in the evening
At a Meeting of the Committee on Indian
Concerns present 16 Members and our
friends Jacob
Lindley
Pennsylvania
The sub-committee produced the following
report
In compliance with what appeared
to be the sense of the Committee
when last con-
vened, we endeavoured to procure a suitable
Friend
to go and reside amongst the Indians the present
season
but no suitable one having offered to engage
in the service and
taking into consideration the
advanced season of the year and the
dissatisfied &
unsetled situation of the Indians at that time
on
account of a sale of Land that had been made
by some of the
tribes to the United States (which
uneasiness we are glad to hear
has since been
removed) our thought it might for the
present
season be best to write to William
Wells
agent and request him to procure for Friends the
most suitable person he could who under his direction