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Beyond Penn's Treaty

Baltimore Yearly Meeting Indian Committee Minutes

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is as follows

Brothers
It appears to me necessary that I should
give you an immediate answer as you are about to
return to your families from whence you came

Brothers & Friends
We are all pleased to see you here & to
take our brothers the Quakers through you by the
hand, we rejoice that the Great Spirit has appointed
that we should this day meet, for we believe that
this meeting will be of the utmost consequence
to your red brethren

Brothers
What you have said we have carefully
gathered up we have placed it in our hearts in
order that it might be communicated to our posterity
--we are convinced that what you have said is
for the good of your red brethren, we are also convinced
that our chiefs and warriors, and our women & children
will be all of our opinion, and will be glad when they
hear what you have said

Brothers
We take you now by the hand and through
you we take the people who sent you here by the hand
and assure you that we are pleased, that the Great
Spirit, has let us see each other, and converse together
upon the subjects which you have communicated to us

Brothers
You see there is not a large number of us
here what you have said to us will not remain with
those who are here alone, it will be communicated to
all your red brethren in this country and I again repeat
that I am convinced they will be glad to hear what