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Beyond Penn's Treaty

Henry Simmons letterbooks, Vol. 1 1797

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named Susannah Wuhlawmensquah, and that I have
read your Letter and the Stockings you sent for which
I am glad, and thank the great Good Spirit, I am
glad that friends have taken good care of your, and that
you have learnt some Work already, and that you are
willing to learn further, all our friend rejoice to here
these things.

Dear Daughter, Let me exhort you to be
faithful in all the Duties which may be laid before you,
and above all, Remember thy Creator in the days
of thy youth, seek after Him, for his promises are
great, and will help the poorest native of this Land, and
without the good Spirit we can do nothing. I will
also inform you that we have raised grain enough
for our support since you left us, and that we have
had Milk & Butter and sometimes some to spare.
we have raised little Flax, last Summer, and will
endeavour to do the same in every year, so that
when it pleasses the great good Spirit you should come
home