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Hampton for the purpose of receiving education &; acquiring the knowledge of useful business; owing to this &; other circumstances they have no School amongst them, though they have a good building erected for that use of latter years The Shinicock Tribe situated about thirty five Miles farther westward has become so mixed with colored people that there does not appear to be more than three families of unmixed Indians, their number is nearly the same as the Montauk Tribe, but owing to the want of wood, the poor quality of their land &; some difficulties attending its cultivation, they have mostly left their settlement on the plain, &; are scattered amongst the neighbouring white people their Meeting House, formerly in the midst of the settlement, is still standing open &; exposed to the weather 2d of 10 mo 1808 (Signed) Anne Willis Catharine Murray Thomas Willis Samuel Parsons The care of the Committee was satisfactory to friends &; a consideration of the subject taking place produced the expression of sympathy with their situation; farther