Dwellings for themselves the ensuing Summer
& request our assistance and instruction therein,
and we are not without a hope that some of them
will take up farming also, altho’ the want of Do-
mestic animals is a great impediment in
their way—

Five of us have been mostly employ'd in
Mechanical Business at our Settlement the
late Winter have prepared Plows and other
necessary implements of Husbandry, and also
made a good deal of Cooper ware and other
Articles which we exchange with they Indians
for Sugar and other house necessaries—

We have lately had some serious considera
tions about taking an Indian Lad as we
think it may tend to the promotion of
the work & that he may be useful to us, but
are willing to submit the matter to you—

We are also united in Judgement, that
if a well-qualified family should offer they
may be encouraged to come forward this