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Beyond Penn's Treaty

Notes of a Journey taken by Elisha Tyson and James Gillingham on a Visit to some Indians in the neighbourhood of Fort Wayne

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his House is of magnitude for this
Country altho not finished he has four
Rooms below Stairs with an Entry but
has not a great deal of land Cleared
his Daughter Betsey keep a Small School
in one of the Rooms

4th of the month & 7th of the Week we went to Monthly Meeting
at Centre at 2 1/2 Miles from Jonathan Wrights
intending on our return in the evening to
have rode about 13 Miles to Vanmetres but
the London Epistles & Extracts arriving the
meeting held so late that we concluded to
stay at J. Wrights until morning. The
monthly meeting was large consisting of about
140 or 150 Families & many Friends that
appear very well Henry Millhous Charity Cook
& Susannah Hollingsworth appeared in
Testimony we thought very lively the business
there was a good many minutes & business
came in from the Preparatives & the
whole was requests to be admitted into
membership & a few Certificates not one
offender to deal with