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situation whilst in your country as comfortable as youcan they are our brothers in whom we can confide and werequest that you will receive whatever they may have to sayas coming immediately from us Brothers We have desired them to visit as many of youas they can, in order to council with you &; Should theynot be able to stay in your Country until the meetingof your general council we have instructed them toleave this address &; get your Brother Wm Wells or someother person to communicate it to you Brother You will remember that about 6 yearsago the Little Turtle Five Medals &; some other chiefs ofyour nation visited our country at which time theyand your brothers the quakers of Baltimore had anopportunity of taking each other by the hands. Brethren These Chiefs having in the course of theirjourney seen how much more comfortably the whitepeople lived than their Red Brethren, were led toinquire by what means they might on their return to theirown Country be enabled to procure for their people thesame comforts which they saw in the families here Brethren Your brothers the quakers of Baltimore ina talk which they then had with them explained to themthe means by which we obtained these things- we toldthem that it all came out of the grounds and that itwas by cultivating our lands that we were enabled to gotthem Brothers These chiefs then told us that it was theirwish to obtain for their Women &; children the same comfortsand that they would on their return home turn theirattention to the cultivation of their lands and for thepurpose of aiding you we procured and forwardedto fort wayne the next summer to the care of Wm Wellesfor your use some ploughs Harness for horses axes Hoes &; Brothers You afterwards informed us that you had rcdthese implements of Husbandry, and that it was your wish