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Letter from N. Carolina respecting Indians west of Mississippi--1838 The Epistle received from New York requests that friends on this Continent, should come to a joint action, in rendering Counsel Protection and Assistance, to the Indian tribes West of the Mississippi, and informs, that Mahlon Day is the clerk of their committee, with whom we may correspond upon the subject. Nathan Mendenhall and Abel Coffin are appointed to correspond on behalf of this meeting and report the result of their information to next yearly meeting Extracted from the minutes of the yearly meeting of friends in North-Carolina the 16th 11 mo 1838By Nathan Mendenhall clerk this year Near James Town Guilford Country N.C. Highly Esteemed Stranger Mahlon Day We desire any information within thy reach on the foregoing, important Subject, there is nothing in our possission worthy of communicating, but we doubt assistance will not be rendered in due season, or in other words, so soon as need, pressing need requires, particularly the Cherokee tribes a part of whom, it is said, went from the western part of this state. We wish to be speedily informed if there are Agents or trustees, for friends, in any of the Western States, who could receive cash and purchase blankets and provisions and forward the same by Steamboat, or otherwise, so that such materials can be put to the uses intended, however it should be understood that we have nothing at our command, yet if need be, we think, we could call our meeting for sufferings together for the purpose Thy friends Nathan Mendenhall Abel Coffin (Copy) PS. Our Yearly Meeting was held from the 5th to the 9th of the 11th month inclusive 1838