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you can look on your Flocks, your Fields and your Fruit Trees, with contentment and Pleasure Brothers and Sisters, We are young men and cannot say a great deal to you but we intend to send an account how you are comeing on to our Older Brethren in Philadelphia and we can assure you they will be your Friends and will counsel you wisely in every thing for your good, and we hope your ears will always be open to Listen to their Talk – We commend you to the Care of the Great Spirit and are your Friends and Brothers Joel Swayne Allegany – 12 mo. 29 1799Halliday Jackson Ninth Letter to the Committee 1st mo. 16th 1800 Dear Friends, Our last was dated 11 mo. 10th since which we have received no intelligence from you either collectively or individually – Our Living here the present Winter is in a good degree comfortable and we are encouraged to hope we shall experience an addition to our number the ensuing Summer whereby one of us may be released from the present engagement