The Committee appointed to prepare a report to
the Yearly Meeting produced the following which
was approved and the Clerk directed to sign it
on behalf of the Committee, to wit

To the Yearly Meeting now siting

We the committee on Indian concerns
Report that since the last yearly meeting we have received
information, that the Mill which was erected at Waupa
kannetta

for the use of the Indians had been so far
compleated as to commence grinding, and gave general
satisfaction to them as it was expected to be of much
assistance

In order to promote the views of Friends for the
benefit of those Indians at Waupaukannetta

who had
solicited our assistance the committee wrote to such
of their members as reside west of the Allegahney
mountains in the 4th month last, that is had been
concluded to endeavour to procure a suitable man
and his wife to reside at the settlement for the
purpose of taking charge of the Mill and affording
the needful instruction in their agricultural and
domestic concerns, and requested them to procure
such, the committee have however understood, that
owing to the unhappy occurences which about this
time took place in that Country, no persons could be
engaged; and soon afterward the communications
between the white settlements and the Indians becoming
almost intirely cut off, our operations necessarily
have been altogether suspended and the committee
have lately been informed that nearly the whole of the