Brothers
You know it is hardly practicable for all to learn together, We will begin
with a few, who must stick to the work, the rest will see how they get
forward, and be ready to take their turn when it comes round, We want to
Engage Six or Eight sober young Men, as apprentices, till next Spring.
Brothers
We suppose that you will be willing we should graze our Horses, Cattle &C upon,
the Common, and that you will allow us some grass lots to provide Hay for
them in the Winter, to cut firewood, railing, and timber for our buildings,
in your Woods, use your Saw Mill & Smith Shop when we have occasions,
and sometimes work your Horses & Oxen if you are not using them

Brothers
You will understand that our Friends are to live plentifully as their
own People do at Home, and their live stock is to be kept upon the pro
duce of their labours, in the first place. One Eighth part of the remainder
is to be reserved for the releif of your old and Infirm People, and the rest is to
be divided among the Indian apprentices, that they may enjoy the
Fruit of their labours and have something to begin with for themselves
when others are taken in their stead, provided they behave well,
but in case of incorrigible idleness, drunkenness, swearing, or misbehavi
our, in any of them, our Friends must avoid bad company, and we
request you to appoint three of your Chiefs, to unite with them as judges,
that if four of them agree the offender may be justly discharged.

Finally Brothers
Our stay among you will depend upon several circumstances but particularly