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and become sober and industrious, requested the assistance of Friends; they have accordingly been supplied with Oxen and farming utensils, and their agricultural improvement and advancement in civilization have been the most rapid of any of the Tribes. Experience has proved that it is most beneficial to the Indians to be furnished with pecuniary aid in such manner as may tend to develop and call into exercise their own resources, lest they indulge the disposition of depending upon Friends for regular and stated assistance, which would eventually prove injurious to them; it has therefore been deemed most advisable that the application of our funds should be made productive of their agricultural improvement by procuring them the necessary means to facilitate labour. And it is but justice to observe that the liberality of our Brethren in England has been sensibly felt, as thereby the Committee has been enabled to extend its views and enlarge the sphere of its usefulness to this People. The annexed statistical account will further elucidate the present situation of the different Tribes under the care of the Committee. We have also subjoined an address from the Onondaga Tribe and our answer. Signed on behalf of the Committee on Indian Concern appointed by the Yearly Meeting of New York New York 2 month 1813 Samuel Parsons Clerk.