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Beyond Penn's Treaty

Henry Simmons journals, Vol. 2 1799

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Wicked, when it ought to be otherwise & c.
more I said to him, nearly to the same
purport; in a very broken manner
to the amazement (I believe) of many
of the spectators. He told me
he could not say much about it, at
the present; but would converse
on the subject the next Day; I
then retired to my house of lodging.

And on the morrow, I went
as usual, in order to teach School
where I found a Large number of
them collected in council, in the
very house, I entered into the
other apartment, and as I sat
the subject of poor Mordecai
was livingly brought to my rem-
embrance, When as he sat at
the Kings gate waiting to see how
the matter would go; after