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Brainerd C. N. Feb 20 1829. My dear friends, Miss Sargent has requested me to write to you. She has told me about Miss SHerwood your teacher she says that she wishes all the heathen to be civilized and have the knowledge of the Saviour. She says that she is a friend to the missionaries and that she used to do a great deal for them she used to make garments and send them out to their indians. She says that she came from the same place where she used to visit and she used to go around about the towns and beg money to support missionaries. Miss Ames has just read her letter to Miss Sargent to us. I was very much pleased to hear that she had so large a number of scholars. She said a great many people in Georgia had become Christian and a great number of them had joined the church like wise she mentioned some of her scholars become christian and a number of sabbath school teachers. I did not know that there were so many that were christians. I do not think these christian people wish us to remove. I think they wish us to be civilized and be like their christian people. I have read much in the papers about the Georgians wishing the Cherokees to remove from their native country. We have a charitable society among ourselves. We have heard what was doing among other people in their societies. We thought that we could form one. It is not long since our society was established. Miss Ames generally repairs the neighbors bonnets