contemplation of your goodness and kind thoughts
towards the Indians and would gladly accept of your
profered aid. But I have doubts whether it would
meet your purpose to bestow the bounty you mention
on this part of the Wyandot Nation

, inasmuch
as your address is directed to those at San Duskey
I should be glad of information from you on
this point. Give me leave to inform you, that
those Wyandots of the two Villages before mentioned
are a very deserving people, temperate, sober, reli-
gious in their way and have already become
agriculterists in part, but need aid and encoura-
gement, with which I have no doubt they would soon
quit the hunting life altogether, and advance ra-
pidly to a state of compleat civilization. Indeed
from what I have seen in this people I am greatly
confirmed in a favourite opinion long entertained
by me, that the Indians are capable of becoming
as well civilized as any people in the world. The
Indians now in question are very anxious to make
further advanced in agriculture and knowledge
and have repeatedly signified to me their ardent
wish for a few good farmers to come amongst them
also some mechanicks, particularly a blacksmith
--As these Indians have frequent communications
with their brethren at Sanduskey I thought proper
to deliver your address to their Interpreter desiring him