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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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them to be to you, like having additional hands.
You will also find, that by using them, they
will enable you to do many things, which, with-
out them, cannot be performed.

Brothers,
There is one thing more, which we wish to
add. The white people, in order to get their
land cultivated, find it necessary, that their
young men should be employed in it, and not
their women. Women are less than men. They
are not as strong as men. They are not as
able to endure fatigue and toil as men. It is
the business of our women, to be employed in
our houses, to keep them clean, to sew, knit,
spin, and weave; to dress food for themselves
and families; to make clothes for the men and
the rest of their families, to keep the clothing
of their families clean, and to take care of their
children.

Brothers,
We desire not to mention too many things
to you; but we must add a little further. We
are fully convinced, that if you will turn your
attention to the cultivation of the earth, to
raising the different kinds of grain, to erecting
mills for grinding grain, to building comfortable
dwelling-houses for your families, to raising