SW_HJ1798_047

Received 3 mo. 29 1800 Philadelphia 2 mo. 22 1800 Dear Friends, Your Letter to the Committee on Indian affairs dated 16 Ultimate was duly received and afforded much satisfaction to find you were preserved in health, and that your situation was rendered comfortable during the inclemency of the present Season. Various consideration have induced the Committee to believe it right to withdraw our friends from the Oneida Nation – Several of the Indians have been instructed in the best mode of tilling their land and two or three young men have acquired so much knowledge in the Smiths business as to be able to do what may be wanted in that line for the use of the Nation so that by proper ap-plication on their part they will be essen-tially benefitted by the labor bestow'd upon them – Jacob Taylor &; Jonathon Thomas attended the meeting of the Committee this day; neither of them appear to be fully releas'd from a prospect of further service among the Indians, We are therefore not without a hope of the subject being so matured in their