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to promote the improvement of the Stockbridge and Brothertown Tribes, and a family of Friends has resided several years at the latter place, and applied themselves with diligence to the service for which they were selected; these Tribes have not improved equally with the others, considering their previous progress, the care which has been extended to them, and the time that has elapsed since it was first exercised; principally owing to the vicinity of white inhabitants, and the consequent facility of procuring Spirituous Liquors; they have however made considerable progress in agriculture, and the Stockbridge Women have latterly taken much interest in a Spinnng School established amongst them and made rapid progress in that branch of industry so useful to them, and so important to their advancement in civilized life; and hopes are cherished that benificial effects will result to the Indian Youth, from the Schools which have been for a long time kept up in these Tribes. During the time that our attention was principally confined to the Brothertown &; Stockbridge Tribes, the Friends of the Yearly Meeting of Pennsylvania, had given considerable aid to the Oneida Tribe and several Friends interested in their welfare had resided amongst them for the purpose of promoting their agricultural and general improvement, but after