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Beyond Penn's Treaty

Geneninguhta [Correspondence]

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2nd Letter from the Committee received 6 mo. 24th Philadelphia 4th mo. 20th 1799
Dear Friends,

Your letter of 1st mo. 23rd
was received and read in the Committee for Indian
affairs at their meeting Last month, its General
contents affording satisfaction a renewal of that
general sympathy was felt which frequently
accompanies our minds on your behalf,
secluded as you are from the Society you
have been accustomed to: yet where an evidence
attends the mind that we are in our proper
allotments in obedience to him who has a right
to our Services in such situations and exercises
of duty as He is pleased to manifest, those
things which would otherwise be very trying
and Irksome are made easy –

your intimation of a prospect that one of
you might during the winter season profit
ably reside at the Lower Village to instruct
the Children in School Learning has
claimed our serious deliberation, and we