having no desire for any of
your lands,
your skins, your furs, or anything that
is yours
Brothers
The hearty desire we feel for your
happy improvements
in pursuing a quiet
peaceful and sober course of life has made
us very thoughtful about the serious
undertaking of the
aforementioned young
Men, so that our minds have been
ear
nestly turned to look towards some others
of our Brethren
to accompany them
on their being introduced among you,
and to
join in endeavours to promote
their proceeding in a way most likely
to be
helpful to you and satisfactory to themselves.
and it
affords us pleasure to find two friends
whom we esteem and love
have expressed
a willingness to give themselves up to
the
service; their Names are Joshua
Sharpless
worthy of the love and regard of our In
dian Brothers
Above all things Brothers forget not that
when you are still and
thoughtful there is