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Beyond Penn's Treaty

Joshua Sharpless diaries, Vol. 1 1798

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Brothers,
We cant all go to work at once, some of
my warriors will go a hunting to get provisions, &
sometimes they break a gun, & then it takes a great
deal of Money to buy another; and we have very few
hoes, & axes, & such things amongst us, and we are
not able to get them.

Brothers,
I will go along with you to Canadarque
and then we will get matters settled about the Mill,
& bring it back to your young Men in writing.

Brothers,
This is all I got to say.

At the close of this speech we expressed a few
words more, representing, among other things, the
unreasonableness of their present practice in suffer-
ing their women to work all day in the fields & woods
with the hoes & axes, whilst the Men & Boys were at
the same time playing with their bows & arrows,
& recommending to them to begin our way, by taking
out their boys to hoe & c. we concluded with se-
riously pressing on their minds the remembrance
That