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on behalf of the Shinecock Tribe resident on the Eastern part of Long Island stating certain grievances and incroachments on their priviledges by the Inhabitants of the Town of Southampton and requesting the assistance of Friends in promoting their relief by forwarding a memorial from them to the Legislature and assisting them in promoting obtaining its objective; the subject is referred to John Murray, Tho Eddy, Robt Bowne, and Samuel Parsons to give such attention to it as they may judge needful Information was communicated to the Committee by the medium of a teller from a Committee of the Meeting for Sufferings in Philadelphia, that by the desire of Friends in England, they were engaged in preparing a statement of their proceedings in relation to the civilization of the Indians, and