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two of the Committee appointed to visit the Indians inform that four of their number have made them a visit; and the following is their report- Viz Agreeable to appointment, we have paid a visit to each of the Indian Tribes under the particular care of this Yearly Meeting, and which with those at Brothertown our minds were affected with the increasing use of Spiritous liquors, and its baneful effects in retarding their civil and religious improvement; yet not without a consoling belief, that the labour hitherto bestowed on this People has not been altogether vain, and that from the residence of John Dean and family amongst them these is a prospect of increasing usefulness by a continued extension of care, particularly in the education of their Children, which Thomas Dean seems deeply interested in, and qualifyed for, as well as to be useful to them in other respects: in both elder and younger ranks there are those who are industrious and sober, and from the religious