Conrad Weiser and the Indian Policy of Colonial PennsylvaniaGeorge W. Jacobs & Company, 1900 - 420 páginas |
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Conrad Weiser and the Indian Policy of Colonial Pennsylvania Joseph Solomon Walton Vista completa - 1900 |
Conrad Weiser and the Indian Policy of Colonial Pennsylvania Joseph Solomon Walton Vista completa - 1900 |
Conrad Weiser and the Indian Policy of Colonial Pennsylvania Joseph Solomon Walton Vista completa - 1900 |
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Página 66 - We have concluded to remove them, and oblige them to go over the river Delaware, and quit all claim to any lands on this side for the future, since they have received pay for them, and it is gone through their guts long ago. To confirm to you that we will see your request executed, we lay down this string of wampum in return for yours.
Página 67 - But how came you to take upon you to sell land at all? We conquered you, we made women of you; you know you are women, and can no more sell land than women.
Página 68 - For all these reasons we charge you to remove instantly, we don't give you the liberty to think about it. You are women. Take the advice of a wise man and remove immediately.
Página 67 - This land you claim is gone through your guts; you have been furnished with clothes, meat and drink, by the goods paid you for it, and now you want it again, like children as you are.
Página 66 - COUSINS, Let this Belt of Wampum serve to chastise you. You ought to be taken by the Hair of the Head and shaked severely, till you recover your Senses and become sober.
Página 67 - Shank, from you for it? You have told Us a Blind story that you sent a Messenger to Us to inform Us of the Sale but he never came amongst Us, nor we never heard any thing about it.
Página 68 - This string of wampum serves to forbid you, your children and grand-children to the latest posterity, for ever, meddling in land affairs; neither you nor any who shall descend from you, are ever hereafter to presume to sell any land : for which purpose you are to preserve this string, in memory of what your uncles have this day given you in charge. We have some other business to transact with our brothers; and therefore depart the Council, and consider what has been said to you.
Página 223 - Lancaster [1744], and desired, that your brethren of the Ohio might likewise confirm the deed. We are well acquainted, that our Chief Council at the Treaty of Lancaster confirmed a deed to you for a quantity of land in Virginia, which you have a right to; but we never understood, before you told us yesterday, that the lands then sold were to extend farther to the sun-setting, than the hill on the other side of the Allegany Hill, so that we can give you no farther answer.
Página 280 - Look at the French. They are men; they are fortifying everywhere. But, we are ashamed to say it, you are all like women ; bare and open without any fortifications.