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Baltimore Yearly Meeting of Friends with the Report of the Committee on Indian Concerns, and was published in the newspapers of the day. Afterwards, at a meeting of the Indian Com-mittee in Baltimore, the 16th of Eighth month, 1798, they received a letter from John Hecke-welder, agent for the Moravian Society, repre-senting the distressed condition of the Indians under his care, in consequence of their having been driven from their settlement on the Mus-kingum river, during the late war, and were now returning thereto in want of provisions and necessary implements of husbandry; whereuponReese Cadwallader, Nathan Heald and Joel Wright were appointed to inspect into the circumstances of those Indians, with liberty, if they shall believe it necessary, to afford them some assistance by furnishing them with such articles as they may be in immediate want of. This delegation reported to the Indian Commit-tee, at a meeting held in Baltimore the 2d of Fourth month, 1799, in a communication bear-ing date, Redstone, Twelfth month 21st, 1798, and signed by Reese Cadwallader and Joel Wright. They had proceeded on their mission as far as Georgetown on the Ohio, sixty-five miles from Redstone, but ascertaining that John Heckewelder had lately gone to Bethlehem, and had procured the Indians under his charge a supply of provisions for the winter before his departure, and that the principal Indians of the