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Beyond Penn's Treaty

Minutes of the Committee on Indian Concern No 1

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From the general temperance of the Onondago


Tribe, & their increasing industry in having
raised various kinds of grain & we feel encouraged
to hope that the labor and care of Friends
extended to them has not been unavailing:
they with the other Tribes have manifested
gratitude for the attention & assistance afforded
them.

Since the Committee performed their visit
to the different Tribes, information has been
received, that through the influence of the white
people, nearly all the men, except the Brother
town

Tribe, have been induced to go into the
war, but that they returned in a few weeks
to their dwellings, & resumed their former
pursuits, but we are apprehensive that the
examples of intemperance & vice exhibited to
their view during their absence will have a
tendency to retard their improvement in