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Beyond Penn's Treaty

Visit to Oneida and Other Tribes of Indians

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do us good, and five years ago,
since we come to this town,
we renew that Covenant; and
since that, now lately, we be-
gin to see the same spirit
which had made Disturbance
amongst us before, and which
must inevitably bring ruin
both to the spirituals and tem-
porals; therefore the Chiefs
was alarmed, and believe it
their Duty to use their law-
ful Endeavour to frustrate
that Design; and they called
the Nation together in general
Council, to consult what shall
be done, and they agreed to enter
into