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Beyond Penn's Treaty

Some Account of my Journey Among the Seneca

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York consists of about 500 houses,
is beautifully situated and a large
stream of water call’d Cadorous running
thro’ it over which a commodious
bridge is built; & being surrounded
with Fertile Fields and Blooming
Orchards, expanding the beauties of
Spring, render’d the Landscape still more
delightful. We din’d here and I meeting
with Wm Kirk (a young man with whom
I was acquainted) he kindly offerd to
pilot up to Huntington that afternoon,
where company was very acceptable
and I had some apprehensions that
he wanted some day have to go on the
same business that I was going upon.

We pass’d thro’ a little village of about
20 houses 4 miles from Y. cal’d Wight
Town
, over several Branches of the
18 Conewaga, and ariv’d at Jno Garrisons
in the evening where myself J.S. &