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Beyond Penn's Treaty

Minutes of the Committee on Indian Concern No 1

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general failure of their crops. A permanent
Teacher for this Tribe has not yet been procured
which still remains to be a desirable object with the
Committee. At present our friend Charles
Willetts

of Long Island is acceptably there for the
purpose of instructing their children in school
learning, and promoting the views of Friends by
assisting in leading them into agricultural pursuits.

By report of the Friends who visited the
small settlement at Onondaga

, we learn that that
tribe though in a rude uncultivated state, unaccustomed
to the arts of husbandry have totally refrained from
the use of ardent Spirits for a number of years;
they appeared to receive the visit gratefully and to
be very desirous of the further care & assistance of
Friends

Before closing this report it may be satisfactory
to add, that there have been two girls sent from