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Beyond Penn's Treaty

Visit to Oneida and Other Tribes of Indians

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that our younger Brother should
never get such trouble again,
we made this Dish of steel,
that it might last forever x,
and we thought, Brothers, that
you had put a steel spoon into
this good Dish; we admire
then, that our younger Bro-
thers should get to differing
about the spoon, but we are
astonished how you should
breake a steel spoon, so that
you cannot all get a Living
together out of this good Dish
that we have given you; but
x This steel Dish very aptly alluded
to a clause in their Deed of Gifts,
barring against their selling or
leasing to white people.