them know the love of their Old Friends the
Quakers have for them, and our willingness
to take a long Journey to see them, some of us
having left Loving Wives, and tender Child-
-ren, with Comfortable dwellings, and ex-
-posed ourselves to the hardships and difficulties of a
perilous Journey, with no other view than
for their improvement. We then read the E-
-pistle or instrumental of writing the Committee sent,
which particularly opened the design, and cause
of our coming amongst them, it was read by para-
-graphs and interpreted with some difficulty.
We next read General Wilkinson

’s letter, then
droped some advice, wishing them, when the took
our proposals into consideration, they would
guard against discouragements, that might
present, in their looking forward, towards
a change in their manner, of living for we did not
doubt but there might be many difficultie
in their way, and their progress might be slow
yet there are accounts in the Writings
amongst the White people, of a people who
lived beyond the great waters, in an-
-other Island, who a many years ago lived
much like they do now, yet were no by in-
-dustry and care become very good
Farmers, and Mechanicks of all kinds