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Beyond Penn's Treaty

Henry Simmons journals, Vol. 2 1799

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some and eat, and they would
help him, and that he would
he thought he took one off of each mans bush
dive to see suchlike berries ripe
he thought he took one berry off of each mans bush
this summer. They told him
the great Spirit was much dis-
pleased with his people’s getting
drunk, and other gross Evils
which they were guilty of, but
as to himself they could not charge
him with anything, except
sometimes geting drunk, but as
he had been Sick a great while, he
had thought more upon the gre-
at Spirit, and was preserved
from drinking Strong drink to
excess, and if he got well he
must not take to it again,
for