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Beyond Penn's Treaty

Some Notes Kept of a Journey

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-ly call'd for a cup of tea - which was
brought to her - but she was in so great
a tremor that it was with much diffi-
culty she drank it, and being sensible of
her situation she said, I am so discom-
posed that I can scarcely drink it.
then having a little more she said that
is sufficient. -- she then altered very
fast, - and in a few minutes without
struggle, sigh or groan quietly breath'd
her last. ---- Thus this hand-
maid of the Lord, in the meridian of
life, being in the 36th year of her age
closed her days and is now without a
doubt receiving the rewards of her faith-
fulness.

A number of the Indian women
from the first of her illness untill her
close manifested much concern for her
recovery, - bringing different kinds of
herbs and roots for her relief as well as
giving from time to time their best