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Beyond Penn's Treaty

Account of I. Coates, J. Sharpless, & J. Pierce, visits to Indian Reservation, NY

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get what we reserved: but by that time we
shall know, and then if they like it,
and we like it, your young men may stay
longer.

Brothers,
If your young men stay
here we want them to learn our children
to read and write.

Brothers,
Two of you are
going home again: if they hear anything
about out land or money they must
write to these young men here: and they
must tell us if were are like to be cheated.

Brothers,
This is all I got to say at present.

After they had closed this speech we in-
formed them, that we understood what
they had said to us, and that we were
satisfied with it: and proposed that
our young men must have some place
to live in, and a piece of land to work,
in order to set them an example, and
to raise bread for themselves to eat, but
that the land should still be theirs, and all
the improvements which we should put on it,
would also be theirs when we left it; and in order
to know where it would be best for our young men