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Baltimore Yearly Meeting Indian Committee Minutes, 1795-1815

BYM_Page_201

deliberation were of the judgment that it will bemost prudent to lay the subject before our Meetingfor sufferings for its sympathy &; advice previousto any further proceedure therein Then adjourned until 4th day the 16th Inst. atthe 3rd hour in the afternoon at which time thecommittee again met present 8 Members The following minute from our Meetingfor sufferings being produced &; read expressiveof that Meetings concurence with the foregoing address to the legislative of the state of Ohio if wasdirected to be signed &;forwarded. The contemplated memorial as essayed bythe committee on Indian concerns was againread: after being deliberately &;weightily consideredit was approved by the Meeting &;that committeemade the channel through which the memorialis to be presented to the Legislature of Ohio Extracted from the minutes of the Meetingfor Sufferings held by adjournment the 16th of the11 mo 1808 by GT Hopkins Clk The clerk was accordinglydirected to transmit our Memorial to theassembly of Ohio under the care of some suitable person who would use the necessary care inlaying it before that Body.Then adjourned