the different tribes of those called the Six Na-
tions

, representing a desire to assist them in
attaining a more comfortable, quiet, and peacea-
ble mode of life, and expressed an opinion
that the distresses and difficulties the Indians
labor under may, in a great degree, be attributed
to their propensity to the use of spirituous
liquors, introduced among them by traders and
evil-minded persons, and suggested a plan by
which the trade in liquors might be checked in
part, if not fully. They conclude:-As, in
our attention to this concern, anything shall
arise that may be deemed useful and proper to
communicate, we mean to impart the same, de-
siring like care may rest with you, that what
may occur useful herein may be intimated to
your loving friends.

Addressed to John Brown

, Elias Ellicott,
John M'Kim, and others, Members of the Com-
mittee of the Yearly Meeting of Maryland, on
the Indian Concern, &c.

Signed by

John Parrish, William Savery, Henry Drinker, John Hunt, Benjamin Sweet, John Pierce, Warner Mifflin, John Biddle, Thomas Harrison, Joseph Sansom, John Elliott.

Any communication to the Philadelphia

Com-
mittee on Indian Concerns, was to be addressed