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Industry, Care, and Prudence we might live happy and com- fortable -- And may the Great Good Spirit ever countenance the Chain of Friendship, that it may remain bright in the la test generation is the wish of your Brothers. farewell To David Bacon Henry Drinker Ellis YarnalThos Wister Joseph Shasquithquirt Isaac Wranpey Moses Wrainkoinhurst Jacob Concapus Solomon Quaikenut Hendricks Aupaumat Jos. Quinney 4th From the Oneida Indians to David BaconJno ParishHen? DrinkerEllis YarnalNat. HarperJno BiddleThos WistarPeter BarkerThos FisherJames CooperJno ElliotWm SaveryJacob LindleyOliver PaxtonThos Stewardson Oneida 15th 10 mo. 1801Brothers We have received your Counsel and Advice at this time, as well as at many other times, and are made thankful that the great good Spirit continues to put you in remembrance of us, to give us this counsel and advice. some of us have agreed together to endeavour to follow it, and improve our land, raise more cattle, grain &; Flax, and learn our young women to Spin, and other useful employments in the House we have improved in building Houses &; Barns, and find great good from it Brothers, we wish to listen to your counsel and advice not to offend, or hurt one another, nor to go to War. We last summer had a general counsel with many of the Western tribes of Indians, at Buffalow Creek, where we all agreed to live in peace and renewed the Chain of Friendship and wish to attend to the Good Spirit, it will teach us to refrain from all evil practices Brothers, We are sensible that the great good Spirit governs all the seasons, and some of us wish to live more and more in his