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no further business appearing at this time thecommittee adjourns Baltimore 10 Mo 15 1804 At a meeting of the committee on Indianconcerns present 16 Members and our friend IsaacBonsall from Pennsylvania The friends appointed at last meeting tovisit the Indians inform that two of them attendedto the service and produced the following report, to wit To the Committee on Indian concernsappointed by the yearly meeting of BaltimoreWe of the committee appointed in the 2nd Mo.last to visit the western Indians, report, that on the23rd of the same month we proceeded upon ourjourney, accompanied by our friend Philip Denniswho had offered to go with us in order to remain withthe Indians during the season for the purpose ofinstructing them in agriculture taking with him twogood horses to be employed in ploughing &;c,. On the30th of the 3rd Month we arrived at Fort WayneSituated on the Miami of the Lake, and at thejunction of the St. Mary’s &; St. Joseph’s rivers Shortly after our arrival we convened a fewIndians, amongst whom were the Little Turtle andthe Five Medals (by whom we were received with