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the different tribes of those called the Six Na-tions, representing a desire to assist them in attaining a more comfortable, quiet, and peacea-ble mode of life, and expressed an opinion that the distresses and difficulties the Indians labor under may, in a great degree, be attributed to their propensity to the use of spirituous liquors, introduced among them by traders and evil-minded persons, and suggested a plan by which the trade in liquors might be checked in part, if not fully. They conclude:-As, in our attention to this concern, anything shall arise that may be deemed useful and proper to communicate, we mean to impart the same, de-siring like care may rest with you, that what may occur useful herein may be intimated to your loving friends. Addressed to John Brown, Elias Ellicott,John M'Kim, and others, Members of the Com-mittee of the Yearly Meeting of Maryland, on the Indian Concern, &;c. Signed by John Parrish, William Savery, Henry Drinker, John Hunt, Benjamin Sweet, John Pierce, Warner Mifflin, John Biddle, Thomas Harrison, Joseph Sansom, John Elliott. Any communication to the Philadelphia Com-mittee on Indian Concerns, was to be addressed