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Beyond Penn's Treaty

Baltimore Yearly Meeting Indian Committee Minutes

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deliberation were of the judgment that it will be
most prudent to lay the subject before our Meeting
for sufferings for its sympathy & advice previous
to any further proceedure therein

Then adjourned until 4th day the 16th Inst. at
the 3rd hour in the afternoon

at which time the
committee again met present 8 Members

The following minute from our Meeting
for sufferings being produced & read expressive
of that Meetings concurence with the
foregoing address to the legislative of the state of Ohio

if was
directed to be signed &forwarded.

The contemplated memorial as essayed by
the committee on Indian concerns was again
read: after being deliberately &weightily considered
it was approved by the Meeting &that committee
made the channel through which the memorial
is to be presented to the Legislature of Ohio

Extracted from the minutes of the Meeting
for Sufferings held by adjournment the 16th of the
11 mo 1808 by GT Hopkins Clk

The clerk was accordingly
directed to transmit our Memorial to the
assembly of Ohio

under the care of some sui
table person who would use the necessary care in
laying it before that Body.
Then adjourned