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Beyond Penn's Treaty

A brief Account of the Proceedings of the Committee Appointed by the Yearly Meeting of Friends held in Baltimore

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rous to be instructed by us, in the cultivation of
your lands? If you say, you are; our brother,
whom we have just mentioned, will continue
with you, during the summer. We shall leave
it to you, to shew him the spot where to begin
to work.

Brothers,
He has left a farm; he has left a wife, and
five small children, who are very dear to him;
he has come from a sincere desire to be useful
to our Red Brethren. His motives are pure; he
will ask no reward from you, for his services;
his greatest reward will be, in the satisfaction he
will feel, in finding you inclined to take hold of
the same tools which he takes hold of; to re-
chive from him instruction in the cultivation of
your lands, and to pursue the example he will
set you.

Brothers,
We hope, you will make the situation of
our brother as comfortable as circumstances
will admit. We hope, also, that many of your
young men will be willing to be taught by him,
to use the plough, the hoe, and other imple-
mets of husbandry. For we are sure, brothers,
that as you take hold of such tools, as are in
the hands of the white people, you will find