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the duty, so far as he alone was concerned. The Little Turtle had in one of his interviews with the Friends told them our young men are not so much disposed to be industrious as we could desire. Philip Dennis found this represen-tation of them fully verified in his experience. After he had, with some assistance from the In-dians, enclosed his plantation with a rude fence, only one, or at the most two of the red men evinced any disposition to labor. They would take a seat either on the fence, or in the trees, near the premises, and watch him with apparent interest in his daily engagement of ploughing and hoeing, but without offering to lend a help-ing hand. He found the land very fertile, and raised a large crop of corn and other products, which, after gathering into a storehouse he built for the purpose in the autumn, he left in charge of some of the neighboring chiefs for a winter supply for the necessitous members of the tribes for whom he had labored, and returned to his home at Ellicott's Mills. Philip Dennis lived some years afterwards, a respectable member of the Society of Friends, and died on his farm in Montgomery County, Maryland. The promise made at the commencement of the foregoing brief history of the Indian Com-mittee of Baltimore Yearly Meeting, from its appointment in 1795 to 1804, has thus been