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Beyond Penn's Treaty

Baltimore Yearly Meeting Indian Committee Minutes

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It has this effect upon the white people who drink
it and will have the same effect upon you

Brethren we believe that the good Spirit
placed all men on this earth as brothers and that
it is their duty to do all the good they can to each
other it is altogether on the ground that we are made
willing to contribute a part of what we have obtained
by our industry in order to assist our Red Brothers
it is this that has made us anxious to convince you
that you would be much happier if you would lay
aside your present mode of living and adopt the
more certain and less laborious mode of living by
the cultivation of the earth

Brethren we always told you that in sending
our young men into your country to show you how
to use the tools which your chiefs saw in the Lands
of the white people we did not seek our advantage
we now again give you this assurance and hope
you will be convinced that in doing it never had
any object in view but your own good

Brethren It is our desire that you will keep
this paper which we now send you as a document
in your hands that we have no claim on you or
your children who may come after you for our
services and will never ask any lands or other
rewards from you or them
avoid all kinds of Whiskey- By this you will in a few
years find yourselves surrounded by the same
plenty that you saw in the families of the white
people

Then adjourned