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with a number of other Women who were much alarmed to behold their companion stabed with knives 12 of 9th month arrived our beloved Friends Joshua Sharpless, Isaac Coates, Thomas Stewardson, and James Cooper, the sight of which was truly pleasing to me as I had not seen any friends since John Pierce and Joshua Sharpless left us in the sixth month 1798 they brought with them a number of satisfactory letters from our friends, and relations, during their stay with us they had a council with the Indians, admonishing them to useful habits of industry, and read to them the following address which they committed to paper at our House Brothers You have now heard that our coming here was to see how you and our young men who are living among you are getting along. We are glad that the Good Spirit has favoured us to meet you in health and given us this opportunity of taking you by the hand and brighening the