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drinking and excess, yet they have some sober persons of both sexes still among them, who recieved us very cordially Things wear a different appearance at Oneida; in walking about their settlements we were pleased to see their improvements in agriculture; they appeared to have plenty of grain for their own use, many new Cribs full of corn, and have sowed considerable wheat and put it in good fence. We had two conferences with them in which the Chief objects they had in view seemed the establishment of a School to be taught by a member of our Society, and Absalom &; Ruth Hatfield offering to begin a School this winter, and to teach some of the Women to spin, sow &; knit, we encouraged them &; ordered some spinning wheels &; flax purchased for their use, that it