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them know the love of their Old Friends the Quakers have for them, and our willingness to take a long Journey to see them, some of us having left Loving Wives, and tender Child- -ren, with Comfortable dwellings, and ex- -posed ourselves to the hardships and difficulties of a perilous Journey, with no other view than for their improvement. We then read the E- -pistle or instrumental of writing the Committee sent, which particularly opened the design, and cause of our coming amongst them, it was read by para- -graphs and interpreted with some difficulty. We next read General Wilkinson’s letter, then droped some advice, wishing them, when the took our proposals into consideration, they would guard against discouragements, that might present, in their looking forward, towards a change in their manner, of living for we did not doubt but there might be many difficultie in their way, and their progress might be slow yet there are accounts in the Writings amongst the White people, of a people who lived beyond the great waters, in an- -other Island, who a many years ago lived much like they do now, yet were no by in- -dustry and care become very good Farmers, and Mechanicks of all kinds