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Beyond Penn's Treaty

A Series of letters written on a Journey to the Oneida, Onondago, and Cayuga Tribes of the Five Nations

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ans during the last war, and some Person had been killed in the
two families of Friends, remained at their habitations with
untill they were carried away the heads of them were taken
after jail as suspected Person; and the door of another house
was marked in the night with the figure of a tortoise, which was
afterward understood to have been an indication that they might stay with
safety like a tortoise covered each in its shell. We expect to leave this Place
on 2nd. Day by way of Catawissy, and I shall probably be the
myself the bearer of the next intelligence from

Your Joseph Sansom