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Beyond Penn's Treaty

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

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them, but will have their own
way, because they know I have
often been cheated by the white people,
if I had never been cheated, then
my warriors would believe me
and mind what I say to them,
but now they won’t mind.

Brothers. We can’t all go to work
at once, some of my warriors
will go a hunting to get provi-
sion, and sometimes they break
a gun, and then it takes a great
deal of money to get a new one,
we have very few hoes and axes, and
such things amongst us and we
are not able to get them.

Brothers, I will go along with
you to Canandorqua, and there
we will get matters settled about
the mill, and bring it back to