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Beyond Penn's Treaty

Some Account of a Visit

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withdrawn from him -- We answer
that when we first came among the Indians,
we considered them as Children begining
to learn to walk, and then we thought
necessary to assist them, but after they
had made some progress, and learn'd to
do many things: it was not so necessary --
that now we did not expect to work much
for the Indians, but to teach them to work for
themselves - And that Children when they
were learning to walk must be taken by the
hand and helpt along, but when they got
able to go alone, they learn'd the faster
by that assistance being withdrawn from
them --

You also complain that our friends
at Tunesassa

will not give you victuals
when you go to the mill or when you are
there about your own business -- We now want
you to understand plainly, that our
friends at Tunesassa are not come there
to feed you -- there is a great many of
you, and but one family of them and
if they always entertained you, when you
went to the Mill, or when you were