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before visited his Friends &; Brothers the Quakers &;held talks with them, and has found upon experiencethat what they have heretofore told him, respecting thebenefits he would receive from cultivating the groundis true. He remarked that he felt a strong desireto conform to the advice he has received to plant cornand take care of his Farm &; Stock, and has been tryingto conform to it in order to support his family; buthe is in want of tools &; farming utensils and cannotcarry on his business without them. In order to effectwhat has already been done at his villages, his people have been obliged to borrow from Waupaukanetta, but being soon obliged to return them they haveworked to a great disadvantage. He has himself 4Horses, but no gears to put on them, and should heobtain assistance from friends, it will be applied byhim for the general benefit of his village Captain Lewis further stated that there areabout 40 young men at his town who are capableof labour and that they had cleared and fencedin a considerable quantity of land which wasnow under cultivation, that he had this pastyear raised a good crop of wheat &; corn and proposedon his return home to open a road from his villageto the mill now building by friends for the use ofthe Indians at Waupaukanetta, He also statedthat his people some time since unanimously determined to listen to the advice they had receivedto abstain from spirituous liquors and that none hadlatterly been introduced amongst them.