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Beyond Penn's Treaty

Henry Simmons letterbooks, Vol. 2 1798

Page out of 86
Philadelphia 4mo 9th 1799

Your Letter of the 23d of 1st
month last
was duely received, and
read in the Committee of Indian
affairs
by whose direction most
of the articles you wrote for have
been procur’d & will we expect be
shortly forwarded, when you
will be likely to here more
fully. The Object of the
present being only to acquaint
you, that upon a conference
with General John Wilkins, he
informed us that he had several
pairs of Oxen at his place at
Hickery Town, that on his
arrival at Pittsburgh he
would