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Beyond Penn's Treaty

Henry Simmons journals, Vol. 2 1799

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which he Dreamt a few nights before,
when out in the Woods Hunting, in Com-
pany with a Lad.

He thought an Indian struck him
twice with a Knife, when he fell and
thought he must Die, but soon appeared
to ascend upwards, some distance
along a narrow path, in which appe-
ared many tracks of People all going up
some barefoot and some not; at
length he came to a house, and the
Door opened, for him to go in, which
he did, where he beheld the beauti
fulest Man sitting that ever he
saw in his Life, who invited him
to sit down, which he endeavoured
to do, but could not, and tried to
stop, & to talk, but could do neither
so passed on, out at a door oppo-
site to the one he came in at,
when out, he heard a great noise
and after travilling some distan
ces