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Beyond Penn's Treaty

Baltimore Yearly Meeting Indian Committee Minutes

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feel in finding you inclined to take hold of the
same tools which he takes hold of, to receive 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 & other implements of husbandry—for we are sure
brothers, that as you take hold of such tools as
are in the hands of the white People, that you will
find them to be to you like having additional hands
you will also find brothers, that by using them, they
will enable you to do many things which without
them cannot be performed

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

Brothers
We desire not to mention too
many things to you but we must add a little further