hv_coatesi_account_1798_004

The following account of visits to these Indian Reservations in Western New York, has been compiled from the accounts kept by Isaac Coates, Joshua Sharpless and John Pierce of their visits to those Indians in the years 1798 and 1799. It appears that the above named persons were highly esteemed by their friends in general and they were often appoint-ed on important business in the Friends Society of which they weremembers. The Indian Committee procur-ed various articles for the Indians' use in agricultural industry &;c which they forwarded to Pittsburg about the time those Friends started who went in 1798.