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Beyond Penn's Treaty

Visit to Oneida and Other Tribes of Indians

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pretend to be, for Jesus Christ
understands Indian as well
as English.

12th.

This morning rode
to Conandarque

, about 14 miles.
The roads extremely deep and
swampy: In the Afternoon
had a Conference with Israel
Chapin
Superintendant for
Indian Affairs, from which we
learn that Captain Abeel, Alias,
Cornplanter
, one of the Seneca
Chiefs, had sent him an an-
swer to our Letter of last spring,
that he was willing to receive
Friends, and that he would be glad
to have them come and settle
about him; because he believed
they