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Beyond Penn's Treaty

Journal, Visit to Indians in New York State, v.3

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serious & Worthy Character--his Person
tall--Countenance modest & appearance
Plain--he is industrious & very hospitable
which character he has sustaind for ma
ny years. His Wife is also a Worthy Wo
man but not very nice. Half Town

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Indian Name is Codjeyate --or to put a
cork in a Bottle. Thomsons Name is
Kys wyd twa--or the whole side of a Hog
There were also several other Chiefs of low
er Grade present at Council.
After our Business with them was gone thro'
Granger informd them of the Object of his Visit
& concluded with some very suitable advice,
all correspondent with ours & tending to enforce
it. On breaking up, our Comp't with E Granger
went to the House of Wyundegohta where we found
his Wife had been preparing us a Repast &
was just bringing it into the Store House where
we had been received--it consisted of a Bowl
of Soup made of Wild Pidgeons &c--the Pidge
ons being left in--and some Indian [Cakes?]
one kind made of Old Corn Pounded & baked
in the Ashes--the other of new shelld off corn which
it was said had been tied up in a Corn Husk
and Boild--but I think it had also been