Hampton

for the purpose of receiving education &
acquiring the knowledge of useful business; owing to this
& other circumstances they have no School amongst them,
though they have a good building erected for that use
of latter years

The Shinicock Tribe

situated about thirty five
Miles farther westward has become so mixed with
colored people that there does not appear to be more
than three families of unmixed Indians, their
number is nearly the same as the Montauk Tribe,
but owing to the want of wood, the poor quality of
their land & some difficulties attending its cultivation,
they have mostly left their settlement on the plain, &
are scattered amongst the neighbouring white people
their Meeting House, formerly in the midst of the
settlement, is still standing open & exposed to the weather

2d of 10 mo 1808
(Signed) Anne Willis Catharine Murray Thomas Willis Samuel Parsons

The care of the Committee was satisfactory to friends & a
consideration of the subject taking place produced the
expression of sympathy with their situation; farther