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Beyond Penn's Treaty

Henry Simmons letterbooks, Vol. 2 1798

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to be instructed in domestic Oeconomy
the needful Business of a Kitchen & c.

Your taking on an Indian Lad
to instruct in Farming and such
other Business as he may be capa-
ble of, meets our approbation.

The Friends who were settled
at Oneida and those who went about
the sam time you left us, all re-
main there, and have been favour-
ed to enjoy a good state of Health.
We have rec'd satisfactory acounts
from them respecting the imrov-
ment of some of the Indians, and
several Lads have undertaken
to Learn the Smith’s Business.

In respect to the application
of the Catarogus Indians, we may
inform