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Beyond Penn's Treaty

Some Account of a Visit

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That they were very glad to hear our
Speech and thankful to the Great Spirit
for the advice we had given them - that our
advice heretofore had been very useful and
encourageing to them to pursue industrious
habits and they had already got their
eyes open and were determined to go on
in the Cultivation of their Land, for they
knew their Land was very good and they
suppos'd it was the mind of the Great
Spirit that they were setled here in this
good Land -- that they were determined
to take our advice in learning their
Children to work while they were young
& they had for several years past been
in the practice of learning them -- that
ten years ago they had little or no cattle
or stock of any kind, but now they
were geting plenty and our advice was
very good respecting their provideing
fodder, & that some of them had already
made a beginning to sow Timothy seed-
for they had sometimes found it diffi-cult