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Beyond Penn's Treaty

Visit to Oneida and Other Tribes of Indians

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Such Things like the white
people do; and that their
Women should learn to spin
the wool that would come off
their Sheep, to make them
Blankets and Clothes, to keep
them and their Children
warm in cold Weather; and
that we were willing to shew
them how to do those things;
that some of our young men
would stay a while with them,
(if they were willing,) to instruct
them how the white people
tilled the land (for we had before
united in the Belief that this
was the most fruitable place
to make our Settlement) but