cern will admit. Your Reasons
for desiring a discreet Family may
be encouraged to come and reside at
your settlement we doubt not are wei-
ghty, and the subject is seriously
before us, tho’ doubts have been sug-
gested whether it may yet be sea-
sonable to invite Females to so
material a change of life at a dis-
tance so great till the manners &
Customs of the Natives become more
assimilated to the modes & princi-
ples of civilized life, while the
consideration of this matter is un-
der deliberation with us, would it
be amiss for you to look around
you for some thoughtful well
disposed elderly Female native
who may be tractable, and willing
to