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Beyond Penn's Treaty

Geneninguhta [Correspondence]

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afflicting dispensation of sickness in your parts
was in a great measure abated and that you
were again permitted to meet in your usual
manner, and altho’ it affected us much that
so many of our worthy Friends laid down
their lives in the calamaty, it affords us
consolation to find that we still live in the rem-
embrance of some of the survivors, altho’ the
intercourse between you and us is not so fre-
quent as we could desire

Our School at Conishadaga

grows larger
and the progress in the Children’s Learning
affords an encouraging prospect—several
Grown persons have also evinced some incli
nation to be instructed, and paid some attention
thereto—The Indians have made proposals
of assisting us in building a schoolhouse at
that place, and as our present accommo
dations there are but indifferent we think
it necessary to carry the work into effect
pretty early this Spring—Numbers of
them propose building more comfortable