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Beyond Penn's Treaty

Henry Simmons journals, Vol. 2 1799

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them, and told them there is a certain
good Book, called the Holy Scriptures,
which very few, who can read, will dare
to deny its being true, which gives us
an account, of the World being made
and of all living Creatures both in water
and on land, by the great Spirit, and
also the first man & Woman whom
the great spirit created of the dust of
the earth and breathed into them the
breath of Life, and they became living
Souls, who had two sons, one of them
was a good man, and the other Wicked
who kiled his Brother, because he
was more righteous than himself.
and askt them if they did not see it
so now a days; that wicked people
envy good ones, and at times were
ready to take their lives. I told
them that the great Spirit, made all
these things, in six days, and on the
seventh