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Ohio in relation to Shawnese--Indiana on Civilazation, &;c. To the Committee of New York Yearly Meeting for the protection assistance &;c. of the Indian Tribes West of the Mississippi. Dear Friends The paragraph contained in the Epistle from your Yearly Meeting touching the above subject claimed the es- pecial notice of our Yearly Meeting and we were by minute directed to correspond with you relative thereto. You are no doubt already informed that in conjunction with the Yearly Meetings of Baltimore and Indiana we have long had under our care the civilization and Christian Instruction of the Shawnee Tribe of Indians. And that while in a progressive state of im- provement they were removed from this State west of the Mississippi. We have however thought it right to follow them to their new abode,--have erected buildings--placed a fam- ily there, and opened a school. You may not be aware that in a school thus circumstanced the children have to be learned and boarded and Clothed by Friends; thus involving a very heavy expense especially in a new Country where provisions are high. It is caused of deep humiliation and sorrow that our efforts to give the young Natives a knowledge of letters and of the truths of the gospel as contained in the Holy Scriptures have not hitherto been efficient for the want of adequate means. The whole of the funds originally derived from our brethren in England being detained in the hands of Hicksites in Baltimore. Contributions among ourselves have not enabled us to keep a school in the mentioned all the year; and until this desirable