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Beyond Penn's Treaty

Henry Simmons letterbooks, Vol. 2 1798

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our advice in that, and leave off
drinking Whiskey, we shall be
incouraged to try to instruct
you farther in farming & work
ing your Land, but if you will
spend your money, that you
should buy Cattle & other use-
ful things with, for Whiskey,
we shall be discouraged from try-
ing to get our young men to
come & live with you and instr-
uct you, for we see that bad
white people men, who gets
drunk, does very little good
for themselves or any body
else.
Joshua