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at Conescotago as the children are generally at that place-- We are at present in a reasonable state of health and remain your loving Friends Henry Simmons &; Joel Swayne &; Halliday Jackson being Absent on a Journey to Cattaraugus with a young man who met with an accident which disabled him from Walking and not returning so soon as we expected, and an Indian now waiting to take the letter to fort franklin we think it expedient to send it without his Name 3rd Letter to the Committee 1st mo. 23rd 1799 Dear Friends, We have written two letters to you since our settling here the last of which was dated 16 of 11 mo 98, and altho’ we have received no answer from you in a Collective capacity we doubt not but many of you sympathize with us, and we are often mercifully favored to feel the help of your Spirits cooperating and strength-