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Beyond Penn's Treaty

Joshua Sharpless diaries, Vol. 1 1798

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of grain & grass & c. off of your good land Now brothers
you know, two years are gone & none of your young
Men are come forward to work with our friends as we
proposed & we understand your young Men say they
cant get victuals to stick steadily to their Work and
therefore they cant do as we proposed, we will now make
you another offer.

Brothers,
If three or four of your sober young Men
above the age of 16 years, will come & work with our
friends on the farm, & stay with them six Months, we
will agree to board & lodge them, they must stick stea
dily to work five days in a Week, the other day they
may have to themselves to go & see their friends & c.
they must be sober, & mind what our friends say to
them, & do the work as our friends tell them it should
be done, & not go off & quit their work without speak-
ing to our friends about it, & knowing whether they
are willing; & they must not go out at night a frolicking
but stay about home, so as to be ready to go to bed, at our
friends common bed time. And if these young Men
stay the six Months out, & behave well in the manner
before mention’d then our friends will give each of them
stuff for one cloth coat, 2 Shirts one pair cloth leggons
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