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General Committee shall resulut on the subject. On conferring with a number of the women who are much interested in learning to spin we concluded to supply them with two pounds of wool &; six pounds of flax each; there are about Twenty four who are learning, and as more wheels are needed we concluded to furnish them with one great &; one small wheel, &; a loom which they were very desirous of having; as one of their number has learned to weave We proceeded to Stockbridge &; had a conference in the Meeting House with such of the Tribe as could be collected They like the other Tribes have unhappily taken part in the war, and their habits of intemperance as might be expected are not lessened; their women have made great advancement in spinning, about sixty have learned in a greater or less degree, and in order to encourage them in it, we concluded to furnish