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as being calculated to promote your real interests Brothers—We hope that many of your people, willbe disposed to join our young men in takinghold of the plough, the Hoe, the Axe, and otherimplements of husbandry, so that the productionof the Earth under the blessing of the great Spiritmay be made abundant and the next Winter bea winter in which your Cabbins may be filled withplenty. Having nothing further to add at present we conclude with the expression of sincere desiresfor the welfare of your chiefs and old men—youryoung Men—your Women &; your childrenSigned on behalf of the Committee onIndian Concerns 3 Mo 12 1806 By Evan Thomas Elisha Tyson Geo Ellicott Gerard T. Hopkins Andrew Ellicott Jr. Isaac Tyson P. E. Thomas The following letters from Stanley Grissold governorof the Michigan Teritory were received and refered toGerard T. Hopkins George Ellicott Andrew Ellicott Jr.