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and he expresses it as his opinion, that when Peace isrestored in that country these People will be more thanEver disposed to pursue the farming business, he alsostates that these Indians have manifested on alloccasions a firm friendship towards their whiteneighbours By a letter from one of our Members inOhio, we are likewise informed that the tools andimplements of husbandry which had been prepared forCaptain Lewis, and the Indians at Stoney Creek wereall delivered to them and are now in use, and thatthese Indians had also continued firmly attached to thewhite People, and such of them as were permited to remain at home were busily engaged on their farms. Healso states that the Mill which had been nearly completed at Waupaukanetta still remains unfinished onaccount of the unsetled state of things in that country We have not received any information from theVillages at Mohicken Johns Lake, since last yearlyMeeting, the care of these Indians had been commitedby us to some of our Members who reside west of theAllegahny Mountains We have examined the Treasurers acct. and findin his hands a balance of $2873.70 exclusive of the principal of the donation from our Brethren in Great Britainand $236.18 /4 which had been placed in the hands of thecommittee who were charged with the care of the Indiansnear Mohicken Johns Lake Signed on behalf of the CommitteePhilip E. Thomas Clerk Then adjourned At a meeting of the committee on Indian concerns10 mo 20 1813 Present 9 Members Silas Dinsmoore the agent of the Choctaw nation