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Beyond Penn's Treaty

Minutes of the Committee on Indian Concern No 1

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General Committee shall resulut on the subject.

On conferring with a number of the women
who are much interested in learning to spin we
concluded to supply them with two pounds of wool
& six pounds of flax each; there are about Twenty
four who are learning, and as more wheels are
needed we concluded to furnish them with one great
& one small wheel, & a loom which they were
very desirous of having; as one of their number
has learned to weave

We proceeded to Stockbridge

& had a conference
in the Meeting House with such of the Tribe as
could be collected They like the other Tribes have
unhappily taken part in the war, and their
habits of intemperance as might be expected are
not lessened; their women have made great
advancement in spinning, about sixty have
learned in a greater or less degree, and in order
to encourage them in it, we concluded to furnish