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& weave with so much assiduity as to make more cloth in value, than the Chiefs Hunt of six months amounted to. He was astonished & came to the Agent with a smile word scratched out accusing him for making his wife & daughter better hunting than he & requested to be furnished a plough & went to work on his farm.

   In the mean time the Moravians opened their School for the Indians, cleared a farm, cultivated a garden & planted an orchard. The Venerable Rev. John Gambold & his amiable Lady were a standing movement of Industry, goodness & friendship. As far as they had the means, the converted the Wilderness to blossom as the Rose". There the boys & girls were word lined out taught to read & write, & occasionally labor in the Garden & in the field. There they were first taught to sing & pray to their Creator & here Gospel Worship was first established. Never shall I forget father Gambold & mother Mrs. Gambold. By them the clouds of ignorance