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Beyond Penn's Treaty

Some Account of my Residence among the Indians continued (Notes 2nd)

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The situation was very beautifull for the purpose
but the stream we thought was rather smal &
several of the Indians express'd their fears about it.
And seem'd desirours we should take a review of
the other Stream which we attended to the next
day in company with the Millwrights and were
still of the mind a good mill seat might be had
at that place but the Mill wrights seem'd to throw
several Obstacles in the way, and persisted in going on
with the work where the had begun and the Indians
conclueding the other stream might answer their pur-
pose tho' it would not saw all the year, we found
best to leave the Matter pretty much to them
selves, yet the return'd us many thanks for our
care in comeing to advise them --

This evening we mentioned to some of their Chiefs
that we propos'd going home to morrow & should
like to see a few of them collected together next
morning to take leave of them before we departed.
They replied they had thought of the same
thing and would be happy to speak a few words
with them us before we went away --

12th of the month

Accordingly this forenoon
the chiefs and others collected and call'd us into
the Counsel room where we had some further
conversation about the sawmill with which the