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Beyond Penn's Treaty

Minutes of the Committee on Indian Concern No 1

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their condition. No material change appears
to have taken place in the Brothertown

Tribe, (excepting
that improvements have been made in the erection
of several barns-) but as heretofore some are
sober and industrious and others the reverse

The same remark is applicable to the men of
the Stockbridge

Tribe. The South settlement
of the Oneida Tribe affords encouragement by
their improvement in agriculture, and it is hoped
that the injury to their morals which is produced
by the part which they and thelate other Tribes
have taken in the late war will gradually be
retrieved, for it was a satisfaction to remark
that their young men manifested less disposition
to enter into the army than the elder chiefs, and
their stay was not long.