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Beyond Penn's Treaty

Henry Simmons journals, Vol. 2 1799

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evening we fourded Cateraugus
Creek
about four rads wide, near which
we encamped in the Woods, in the
manner ive did the night before
made a large fire, by which we
refreshed ourselves, & got a pretty
good nights rest.

4th day 9th. Passed on near the
bank of the aforesaid Creek, which
was astonishing to be hold its being
such a great distance from the Water
and nearly parpendicular, we at
length came to a village of Delaware
Indians
, containing about thirty
Cabins, being about 50 miles from
Genesinguhta, 40 of which is not
inhabited, after riding 8 miles
further through a very timber’d
swamp, frequent mudholes
which