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Beyond Penn's Treaty

Henry Simmons journals, Vol. 2 1799

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the Quakers were doing no good
among them, but otherwise, and it
was not right for their children to
learn to read & write. Wherefore
they had held a council yesterday
on the Subject; And many of his peo-
ple were so foolish as to believe it
was true, for many of them put great
confidence in their Dreams. but
he did not believe it, and had got very
tired of hearing so much noise about
their Dreams. He wished me not to
be discouraged, for he intended to make
his people do better.

I told him l did not feel uneasy
at all about it; for I thought I knew
from whence it had originated, I
knew that Farmers Brother
and others of the Buffalo Indians
were much injured & set against
the Quakers, through the instigati