improvement in agriculture, many of the men being
given to intemperance & indolence, which evil we
believe has been greatly increased by the introduction
of white people living among them: they have also been
induced to let out their Farms to these people on
conditions unprofitable to themselves, thereby depending
on their labor; but as arrangements are made by
Government for removing the white inhabitants, we
encouraged them to improve the land by their own
labor, and had the satisfaction to Observe that
a number manifested a disposition to adhere thereto

The introduction of a spinning School amongst them
appears to have stimulated a number of their women
to progress in that art; some of them having
proceeded to make cloth for their own use; and
we thought it right to furnish them with more
wool, flax and some wheels, that the school may
be continued to advantage Some of the men have
been induced to commence raising flax; that the
continuance of this business affords a prospect of
usefuness to that people, and we believe if persevered