the Indians Particularly in the Cultivation of your Lan
ds in the manner of the white People, that you may
have plenty of Bread & Meet for yourselves and
Children all the year round, that you might not suf
fer for the want of it; as I believe you oftten do, thro’
your own Idleness & Drunkenness.

Brothers, I suppose you remember that some of your
Friends the Quakers who paid you a visit Last Summer
proposed to send you some Impliments of Husbandry, in
order to encourage you to work, that you may in time
become good Farmers. I have now brought them, &
all we want for them or for our trouble, is your careful
attention to what we Say to you, that is, that you
go to work with them clear and Plow your Land as
fast as you can, So you may have plenty of food to
Subsist upon; So that ye are kind to Each other &
lend these Tools and encourage one another to work
and persuad one another from Drinking Rum &
getting Drunk. Oh how Sorry I have been to see