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Beyond Penn's Treaty

Some Account of a Visit

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Presently after the Counsel, the chiefs
wife brought us up some dinner of her
own prepareing, of which some of us eat
hearty, but some others partook but
spareingly of her bounty ---

The Indians of this Village, have
a large extent of ground under good
fence in one enclosure stretching
along the River for near three miles
on a very rich bottom -- a great deal
of which is planted with Corn and looks
well some of it they are now pulling
nearly all these improvements
have been made within three years.
They have a pretty large stock of Cattle
and Swine & the extensive natural
Meadows that lay contiguous to them
affords them a great outlet to feed in
& the most elegible place for raising Cattle
of any I have ever seen on Indians Grounds.
But altho their situation is so very
favourable for Agriculture they have
by no means made such a progress
therein as the Allegany

Indians,