To the President and Senate of the United States the memorial of the subscribers, members of the religious Society of Friends of the State of ____ respectfully sheweth

[ca. 1815]

Memorial proposing that Friends purchase a tract of land from the Indians in Indiana to establish a Quaker settlement; the memorialists "indulge the hope that the day is not distant, when these tribes shall exchange the Tomahawk & scalping knife for the Implements of husbandry -- when we shall no longer behold in them the Savage foe, but the civilized & tranquil friends; fixed in their habitations, local in their interests, impressed with Ideas of separate property, and advancing in the mechanic arts; when schools shall be established for the education of their youth, until they become as growing monuments of the exalted Benevolence and Philanthropy, of the Government over which you preside." Apparently enclosed in letter from unidentified recipient to Obadiah M. Brown.