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Baltimore Yearly Meeting Indian Committee Minutes

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Your consideration of and Interest in its favour
should it meet with your approbation. I am also
collecting materials for a history of all this part
of the Country, particularly of the Indians, and
of its natural productions &c.

accept my best wishes for your success & prosperity
Stanley Griswold acting Governor
of Michigan Teritory Michigan Teritory 1 June 1806
Friends

I committed your address (as was mentioned
in my former letter) to the interpreter and the
principal chief of the Wyandot

at Moguago to
be communicated and explained to the chiefs
at Sanduskey- they have lately waited on me
with the following information-

That they dispatched two young men
with the address to Tarhie

at Sanduskey who
were gone 7 days- that they found him with
other chiefs and many more people assembled at a
funeral- that a missionary preacher was there
whose name they had forgot- that on making known
their errand and producing the address the preacher
interfered and strongly urged the chiefs and people
not to hearken to the Quakers nor accept any
thing from them, not even the implements of
Husbandry offered by you as a present- that if