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afflicting dispensation of sickness in your parts was in a great measure abated and that you were again permitted to meet in your usual manner, and altho’ it affected us much that so many of our worthy Friends laid down their lives in the calamaty, it affords us consolation to find that we still live in the rem-embrance of some of the survivors, altho’ the intercourse between you and us is not so fre-quent as we could desire Our School at Conishadaga grows larger and the progress in the Children’s Learning affords an encouraging prospect—several Grown persons have also evinced some inclination to be instructed, and paid some attention thereto—The Indians have made proposals of assisting us in building a schoolhouse at that place, and as our present accommodations there are but indifferent we think it necessary to carry the work into effect pretty early this Spring—Numbers of them propose building more comfortable