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to Thomas Wistar, Clerk of the Committee, who had authority to call a meeting of their Sub-Committee of fifteen Friends, on necessary occasions. The committee remained two days in session at Pipe Creek, deliberated on their benevolent purposes, addressed a reply to their Friends, John Parrish and others, in Philadelphia, through Thomas Wistar, and appointed John Brown, Jonathan Wright, Israel Janney, Moses Dillon, and Joseph Bond, to pay a visit to the Delawares, Shawanese, Wyandots, and other nations northwest of the river Ohio, or to such parts of them as they shall find freedom; appro-bation of the government being first obtained. They also addressed a letter to the Indians to whom they were about to send a mission, in which they informed them that the Quakers, at their general religious council in Philadel-phia, having agreed to take some of the Six Nations, who live in the North, by the hand, our religious council held last fall in Baltimore were also concerned for your welfare who reside in the West. They have told us to endeavor to speak with you and get acquainted with your nations. For this purpose we have sent our beloved bro-thers, John Brown, Israel Janney, Jonathan Wright, Moses Dillon, and Joseph Bond, to shake hands with you in your tent, and to ask if you wish to be instructed how to raise corn