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On deliberating on the propriety of proceeding to Onondago, we learned that having been engaged in the war, they had introduced the smallpox into the settlement, of which several had died &; a number were now ill. We were further informed that Ephrain Webster their interpreter was absent from home; from these circumstances we concluded the views of the Committee would not be answered by making them a visit at the present time We were accompanied in the visit by our friend Charles Willetts, who has been nearly four months at Oneida &; its neighbourhood, and it is but justice to him to state that his presence &; services amongst them have been very useful at a time when they were much wanted; and we are thence led to give our opinion of the necessity of having a friends' family resident amongst them. Oneida 25 of 8 mo 1814 James Mott Tripp Mosher, Ruth Spencer, Phebe Howes, Samuel Parsons