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Beyond Penn's Treaty

Henry Simmons journals, Vol. 2 1799

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had often been guilty of striking his
wife, and if he would entirely quit
that practice, he would have his arms
made whole again, and if he forsook
all other Evil practices which he had
be guilty of, he should have a home
in the first House which he entered.

He was then bid to go home. when
he awoke he found himself crying &
could not tell his dream for some
time after, for Crying, for he knew
it was true, And confest in the
Council that he had been guilty
of all those actions above mentioned.

After l had considered the matter
well, I told him, I believed his Dr-
eam was true, and hoped he would
remember it as long as he lived & c.
He said he intended to try to do
better than he had done and
intend