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Reports of the Indian Committee to New York Yearly Meeting, 1795-1806

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who for sometime resided with the Indians there, with aview of extending their services farther westward - As those Indians are now left by Friends, who have at a considerable expence helped them with Farming Utensils, and assissted them in erecting Mills and other improvements, their labour may in some degree be lost, unless attended by friends of this Yearly Meet.g and as those Tribes are much more convenient to us, the Committee are desirous they may claim the sympathy &; attention to friends - all which is submitted - signed by direction &; on behalf of the Committee Saml Bowne 5 mo 26-1800 In attending to the preceding report, the Meeting was led to the expression of arenew'd feeling towards that injured People, and asatisfaction with the attention &; proceedings of the Committee - and they are encouraged to continue their care and solicitude for the promotion of the religious &; temporal good of that part of the human Race, agreeably to the concern of this Meeting as expressed in a Minute on the Subject in 1798.