SW_BYM1806_009

A BRIEF ACCOUNTOF THEPROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMITTEEAPPOINTED BY THEYEARLY MEEITNG OF FRIENDSHELD IN BALTIMORE,For Promoting the Improvement and Civilizationof Indian Natives. A weighty concern having been opened inthe year 1795 in our Yearly Meeting, re-specting the difficulties and distresses to whichthe Indian natives of this land were subject, itobtained the serious attention of Friends; andmany observations were made, relative to thekindness of their ancestors to ours in the earlysettlement of this country; exciting a deep con-sideration and enquiry, whether, under the in-fluence of that exalted benevolence and good