SW_BYM1806_046

POSTSCRIPT. SINCE this narrative was prepared forpublication, a letter has been received from theagent at Fort-Wayne, dated the 5th of theTenth Month, 1805, in which he says, Agreeably to the directions of the commit-tee, I have employed a man to assist the Indiansin cultivating the field on the Wabash, whichwas cleared and cultivated by Philip Dennis lastyear. The Indians with the man’s assistancehave raised, it is supposed, at least six hundredbushels of good corn from this one field, ex-clusive of what they have raised from groundof their own clearing. Many of the oldest of the Eel-River andWeas Indians have removed and settled at thatplace, where they will be followed by theyounger branches of their tribes in the ensuingspring. He adds, Believing as I do, that the Societyof Friends are desirous of a meliorating the situa-tion of their Red Brethren in this country, I will