You have own'd that the Counsel of
we have for several years given you
and that the assistance of our young men
in learning you how to cultivate your
Land & to live comfortably, has been good
for yourselves, your wives, and your children.

Brothers,
We now feel desirous to say some-
thing to you on a subject of great importance
which we wish you would seriously attend
to and consider --

Brothers,
You know that the people
called Quakers are a peaceable people
they can have no concern in wars and
fightings, and the destruction of their fellow
men, they desire that al men should
live in peace and feel love for each other.

Brothers,
There are two great command-
ments which all ranks of Christians thro-
-out the world profess a belief in and that
it is their duty to observe and obey them
They are first - that we should love the
Lord our God with all our hearts and with
all our souls and with all our strength --