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Beyond Penn's Treaty

Minutes of the Committee on Indian Concern No 1

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the men to persevere in the cultivation of their
lands; and also suggested the propriety of their
women learning the arts of spinning, knitting &
after some time spent in deliberating on the subject,
they requested time for further consideration in
order unitedly to decide thereon

In taking into view the situation of the
different Tribes, we believe there is cause of
encouragement for further exertions of Friends
and as Absalom

& Ruth Hatfield are dissmissed from
their station, we think it right to suggest to the
Committee the propriety of hiring a man to labor
alternately with the Oneida & Stockbridge Tribes
through the ensuing season; and also extending
the same care towards the Onondago Tribe by
employing Ephrain Webster to devote a part of
his time amongst them, by which means an
opportunity would be afforded for instructing
them more effectually in the necessary branches
of agricultural improvement