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Beyond Penn's Treaty

Visit to Oneida and Other Tribes of Indians

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In the afternoon of this Day
we attended a farewell Council
of the Tuscorora’s

, which was
opened by informing them in
what Respects we had considered
them in our propositions to
the Stockbridge’s, and also that
we meant to give them a
large Share, in proportion
to their numbers, of the Goods
which we should have to divide,
after which we were favoured
renewedly to open before their
view the Serious necessity of
a Change in their Manner
of Life; together with the
probability that as they increas-
ed in Industry and Sobriety,