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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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week: the other day they may have to rest,
and to go and see their friends &c.

They must be sober, and mind what
our friends say to them, and do the work
as they tell them it should be done, and
not go off and quit their work, without
speaking to our friends about it, and
knowing whether they are willing; and
they must not go out at nights to frolic-
ing, but stay about home so as to be ready to
go to bed at our friends common bedtime:
and if these young men stay the six months
out, and behave well in the manner before
mentioned, then our friends will give each of
them, stuff for one cloth coat, 2 shirts, one
pair of cloth leggings; 5 bushels of wheat, 10
bushels of Indian corn, and 10 bushels of po-
tatoes; and if they will then go to farming
for themselves; and their Chiefs will let them
have separate lots of ground to fence for that
purpose, then our friends will lend each of
them a plow with irons all completely, for one
year, and by that time they may be able to get
some for themselves and then they must be re-
turned, so that other young beginners may
have them.

Brothers, We shall give a copy of these
propositions in writing, signed with our names