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Beyond Penn's Treaty

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

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your young men in writing,
Brothers. This is all I have
got to say we will now shake
hands.

At the close of this speech we
expressed a few words more,
respresenting among other things
the unreasonableness of their
present practice, of their mothers,
wives and sisters, working all
day in the fields, and in the
woods with their hoes and axes,
whilst they themselves were at the
same time playing with their
hows and arrows & c. recommending
them to begin our way by early setting
their boys to business, taking taking
them out to hoe corn & c. thus by
early habituating them to work,
their minds will be turned to it,