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Beyond Penn's Treaty

Account of a visit paid to the Indians in New York State

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this summer and raise a good
deal of corn and some wheat
we will help you to build a
ghrist mill next summer
if a suitable situation can be
found for it; you must find
half the money to build this
mill, and we will find the
other half; and we hope brothers
you will save some money you
get from the white people between
now and then, that so you may
have your share ready against
next spring; and we think you
had better choose one of your chiefs
to keep this money for you, till the
time it is wanted; or perhaps you
money will be all gone for wiskey
or something that will not do
you so much good as a mill would