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Beyond Penn's Treaty

Henry Simmons journals, Vol. 2 1799

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ter their antient custom, by
way of remembrance of their
Dead, for such are their strange
Ideas that they apprehend
their deceised ones will receive
with the some benefit there-
by; the present one being made
on the account of the old Chiefs
Daughter who had been dead
upwards of 4 months. They
prepared much food of differ-
ent kinds and took it to a Ca
bin near their Burying ground
where they eat, old and young,
a very great number, their
Custom is that each one must
tast the others Dish.