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Beyond Penn's Treaty

Journal of Joel Swayne

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thing, and then our minds would have been
easy and we could think on the Great Spirit

Brothers the reason I mention to you about
being cheated, some of my Warriors won't
mind what I say to 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 provisions and sometimes they broke a
Gun and then it takes a great deal of Money
to buy another, and we have very few Hoes &
Axes and such things among us and we are not
able to get them

Brothers I will go along with you to Canadar-
que

and then we will get matters settled about
the Mill and bring it back to your young men
in Writing

Brothers this is all I have to say we will
now shake hands

At the close of the foregoing speech our friends
exprest a few words, representing among