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LATELY MADE TO THE
People called QUAKERS
In PHILADELPHIA,
BY
PAPOONAHOAL,
An INDIAN CHIEF,
And ſeveral other INDIANS, chiefly of the
Minifink Tribe.
With the Subftance of their Conferences
on that Occafion.
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ACCOUNT
OF A
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bon moto
Viſit and Conference, &c.
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PART 1.
BOUT the beginning of the
Seventh Month (commonly
called July) 1760, a number
of Indians came to Philadelphia from
a town called Mahackloofing, ſituate
mon a branch of the Suſquahannah, and
diſtant from Philadelphia about 200
miles. — Their principal buſineſs was
a viſit to the People called Quakers; in
purſuance of an invitation ſuppoſed
to have been given them for that pur-
poſe.
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poſe. This apprehenſion very proba-
bly aroſe from ſome few expreſſions
dropped in converſation by ſome of
our friends; who hearing of certain
Indians that were religiouſly diſpoſed,
and refuſed to join with the reſt of
their countrymen in the war, might
very likely ſay,
“ We ſhould be glad
" to ſee them :” And theſe expreſ-
fions being carried to the Indians, in-
duced them, in all probability, to un-
dertake this journey.
But tho' the chief deſign of their
coming to Philadelphia center'd in
the viſit before mentioned, yet they
thought it alſo their duty to wait up-
on the Governor; not only to manifeſt
their reſpect, but likewiſe to deliver to
him Three Priſoners, which they had
redeemed from other Indians, who
had taken them captive; together with
ſome horſes, which they had brought
with them.
be A time was appointed by the Go-
vernor to confer with them; and a
conference was accordingly held in
the

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the Council-Chamber; the moſt ma-
terial part of which was as follows:
Papoonahoal, the Indian Chief, or
(as the Indians ſtyle him) their Mi-
niſter, ſpoke to the following effect;
viz.
That Tidiuſcung had called at their
town in his way to Atgintging; and
had held council with them, and
applied for their aſſiſtance, in a mat-
ter which he had much at heart,
which was the Redemption of the
Priſoners who were ſtill captives
among the Indians:— That they had
willingły complied with his requeſt,
as far as was in their power, by giv-
ing up the three only priſoners that
were among them ; whom they had
brought down with them, and now
delivered to the Governor. --And by
à ſtring of Wampum he further de-
clared, that they had now delivered
all the priſoners that were in the hands
of thoſe Indians who belonged to
their fociety or town: “ For,” ſaid he
we deſire to do juſtice, and to love
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66 God,

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és God, and wiſh it was in our power
“ fo to affift, that all the priſoners,
" which are in the woods every-
“ where, might be brought back.”
By another ſtring of Wampum he
ſpoke to the Governor again; “ Bro-
ther; I am greatly pleaſed to hear
" of that good peace that is ſo well
“ eſtabliſhed. I heartily join with it,
" and deſire to live in peace. Hear-
“ ken, Brother; I pray you would
“ have ſome pity on us, and let us
“ have no ſtrong liquor at all here !
** all we that live at the place called
Mahacklooſing! And if any of our
“ young men ſhould come down, aſk .
" them where they came from? And
“ when they ſay, they came from
Mahackloofing, I pray you not to
give them a drop of liquor ! and I
hope you will hear us.
“ Brother; After Tidiuſcung was
gone, we conſulted amongſt our-
" felves, and determined to ſeek for
" and collect all the horſes that had
" been ſtolen from the frontiers of
your
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your Province, and brought to our
parts. We found fix, and took
6 them down with us. - - Brother;
" Tho'we are poor, yet we want no
“ recompence for the priſoners and
66 horfes. We do not return them to
you
from a deſire of gain : you are
* welcome to them; and we are glad
*6 of this opportunity of obliging
you.
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The Governor returned them a kind
anſwer, and added, that he had pro-
vided a few things for them, and de-
fired their acceptance of them. Up-
on which Papoonahoal ſpoke again :
“ Brother; I do not come here to do
any publick bufineſs with the Go-
“ vernment. I am not in that cha-
“ racter. I came on a religious ac-
* count, on an invitation ſent me by
“ ſome religious people about twelve
6 months ago: And therefore it frigh-
“ tens me to hear what you have juſt
now ſpoke, viz. That you have
provided fome goods for our uſe,
« and intend to make us a preſent of
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66 them,

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- them. I thank you for your good
6 will, but cannot allow myſelf to re-
66 ceive them ; ſince this would look
" as if I was come as other great ones
“ do, to receive preſents.-No, Bro-
“ ther; I am perfectly ſatisfied with
“ the many good things I have heard
“ in the religious conference that we
" have held, ſince we came here, with
“ the Quakers."
bir “ Brother ; I will tell you the rea-
“ ſon I ſay I am frightened. Should
“ I lay my hands on your preſents, it
“ would raiſe a jealouſy in the breaſts
“ of thoſe round about me, who
“ tranſact the publick buſineſs, and
are wont to receive preſents on theſe
66 occaſions. It would moreover be
apt to corrupt my own mind, and
“ make me proud; and others would
" think I wanted to be a great man;
66 which is not the caſe. I think of
.." • God, who made us; and want to be
66 inſtructed in his ſervice and wor-
ſhip. I am a great lover of peace. I
“ have never been concerned in war-
66 affairs.

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many, I
66 affairs. I have a fincere remem-
“ brance of the old friendſhip which
“ fubfifted between the Indians and
your forefathers, and ſhall always
« obſerve it. I love my Brethren the
Engliſh, and they ſhall ever find me
66 faithful. I was invited to come;
6 and for theſe reafons did come; and
“ not to receive preſents, which ſpoil
“ and corrupt the receivers of them.
Many have misbehaved after they
« have received them; and
“ am afraid, come only for the ſake
" of receiving them.”
Papoonahoal then complained of
fome abuſes in trade; that they did
not receive the price for ſkins which
had been promiſed them; that this put
their
young men upon playing unfair
tricks with the ſkins, by leaving on
them ſeveral parts which were of
no uſe; as the Ears and Paws &c.
This," added he, “is not as it ought
" to be. We ſhould not ſkin our
“ ſkins in ſuch a way; our corrupt
6 hearts

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« hearts have found out this way of
« dealing.
be Brother; You ſee there is no love
" nor honeſty on either ſide. You do
wrong in altering your prices; and
< the Indians do wrong in bringing
“ ſkins to you with ſo much badneſs
upon
them. Therefore, Brother,
we propoſe to fling this intirely
away; for if it remains we ſhall ne-
“ ver agree, and love one another as
“ Brothers ought to do. Brother; I
“ muſt once more acquaint you, that
my chief deſign in this viſit, is to
“ confer about religious matters; and
" that our young men agree with me
“ in this, and want to love God, and
« leave off their former bad courſes.
Now, Brother, I deſire you will not
« raiſe your goods to too high a price;
“ but lower them as you can afford
* it; that we may live and walk to-
gether in BROTHERLY Love and
“ FRIENDSHIP, as Brothers ought to
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• live.
66 Brother;

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ters;
PRIN-
«« Brother; With regard to what I
« mentioned about religious matters,
“ it may be fome may think as I do,
or may think ſlightly of theſe mat-
but I am fixed in
my
“ CIPLES, and ſhall always abide by
Co them:
“ I am glad I have an opportunity
“ of mentioning theſe feveral matters
“ in the prefence of ſuch a large aư-
“6 dience. - The Great God obſerves
“ all that paffes in our hearts; and
“ hears all that we ſay to one an-
(6 other.
He then finiſhed with a folemn act
of prayer and thankſgiving, which he
performed very devoutly.
The next day the Governor return-
ed them a fuitable and kind anſwer,
promiſing that care ſhould be taken to
prevent any fraud in trade; encou-
raging them to perſevere in their reli-
gious progreſs, and wiſhing them a
proſperous journey home.
It appears that there has been for
ſome years paſt, animmediate awaken-
ing

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ing amongſt ſome of theſe Indians ;
more eſpecially of late years, when
Papoonahoal, the perſon who is their
Chief, apprehended himſelf called to
preach to them; in which ſervice he
was ſome time after joined by two or
three more; they appearing very ear-
neft in promoting true piety, which
they apprehend to be an inward work,
whereby the heart is changed from
bad to good; which they expreſs by the
heart becoming Soft, and being filled with
Good. In this diſpoſition they abſo-
lutely refuſed to join the other Indians
in the proſecution of the war ; letting
them know that they would not join
them in it, tho they ſhould kill or
make llaves, or (as they term it) Ne-
groes of them. I underſtood their
Chief declared, that whatever argu-
ments might be advanced in defence
of war, yet he was fully perſuaded,
that when God made men, he never
intended they ſhould kill and deſtroy
one another.
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Our friends had ſeveral ſolid oppor-
tunities with them; they regularly at-
tended our meetings during their ſtay
in town; kept themſelves free from
ſtrong liquors, and behaved with ſo-
briety and decency. And after hay-
ing expreſſed their ſatisfaction with
what they had heard from our friends
(which they ſaid exactly anſwered to
their own religious proſpect) they ſet
forth on their journey homeward, and
were accompanied as far as Bethlehem
by a friend, who made fome farther
obſervations on their converſation and
conduct on the way, which are as fol-
low :
PART

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PART II.
HEIR conduct in general was
commendable ; but-particularly
the behaviour of Papoonahoal, their
Chief; which afforded me ſome fatis-
faction, as well as a good deal of in-
ſtruction: --- for his deportment was
ſuch as manifeſted his mind to be
quiet and eaſy, accompanied with a
becoming folidity and gravity. He
dropped ſeveral expreſſions, which as
they were interpreted to me, appeared
worthy of note. angustialdo
Being aſked what he thought of
the war? He anſwered, “It has been
so told to my heart that man was not
66 made for that end; therefore I have
“ ceaſed from war; yet I have not la-
56 boured to bring about a peace as I
56 ſhould have done. I was made weak
*** for that work by the bad ſpirit ftri-
ving to overcome the good ſpirit in
my heart; but I hope the good will
overcome the bad, and then I ſhall
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“ be ſtrong to labour heartily to turn
people from war to peace. I have
“ often thought it ſtrange the chriſti-
“ ans are ſuch great warriors; and have
“ wondered they are not greater lovers
of peace: for, ſaid he, from the time
« God firſt ſhewed himſelf to my
mind, and put his goodneſs in my
“ heart, I found myſelf in ſuch a tem-
" per, that I thought if the fleſh had
“ been whipped off me with horſe-
whips, I could have borne it with
“ out being angry at them that did
« it."bochod
rihoot
I had a mind (as we were riding on
the way) to ſay ſomething to him of
our Saviour's words and good example
when on earth: I deſired the interpre-
ter to aſk him if he was diſpoſed to hear
ſuch things; he anſwered “ Such
so words as thoſe are very good, and
5* would be acceptable at a fit time:
* ſuch things are aweful, and ſhould
be ſpoke of at a folemn time; for
then the heart is foft, and they would
go into the heart, and not be loſt: but
56 when

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« when the heart is hard, they will
“ not go into the heart, but fall off
66 from it, and ſo are loſt. But at a fit
“ time I would be glad to hear of
6 thoſe things.”
Concerning mens reaſoning about
religion, he ſaid, “When people ſpeak
“ of thoſe things, they are apt to ſtand
up in oppoſition againſt each other,
“ as though they ſtrove to throw each
6 other down, or to ſee which of them
" is the wiſeſt. But thoſe things
6 ſhould not be ; for whilſt one is
ſpeaking, the other ſhould hold
66 down his head till the firſt hath
done; and then ſpeak, without be-
« ing in an heat, or angry.”
I aſked him what he thought was
the cauſe of the alterations of the
times, and why they were ſo changed
from what they had been ſome years
paſt? To this he anſwered, “ People
« are grown croſs to each other. If
" they lived in love, it would not be
but they grow proud and covet-
ous; which cauſes God to be angry,
66 and
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$6 and to ſend dry and hot fummers,
" and hard and cold winters, and alſo
** fickneſs amongſt the people; which
** he would not do, if they lived in
6 love, and would do as he would
66 have them.”
Being at the Indian town near Beth-
lehem, and fitting in company with
two or three, who were converſing
about religious matters, he ſaid, " I
"1. am apprehenſive that I have a feel-
ing ſenſe in my own heart, where-
by I think I can tell when people
ſpeak from the head, or when they
* ſpeak from the heart.”
I told him I had been thoughtful
about the Indians laſt winter, and had
defires for their welfare; and that my
heart was made to love many of them,
tho' I had never ſeen them. To this
he replied, “ I believe this love was
of God; for you did not know we
ſhould come down, nor we ourſelves
at that time did not know it; yet
** God did; therefore he inclined your
* hearts towards us, that you might
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*66 be the more glad, and make ús
“ the more welcome, when we did
" come.”
I underſtood by the interpreter
,
that this Indian no ſooner felt the
power of God to his comfort, but he
endeavoured to make the other Indians
ſenſible of the fame; and laboured to
"turn their minds to a ſearch after what
he himſelf had ſo happily found. Af-
ter ſome time two or three of the other
Indians joined him in this work;
which Papoonahoal at firſt approved
But one of them Thewing an inclina-
tion to fall back to ſome of his old cor-
rupt ways, Papoonahoal defired him
to be filent; “ For (ſaid he) you ſpoil
“ the people, by ſpeaking from a bad
“ heart. — Go, get your own heart
" made clean firſt, and then come and
“ ſpeak to the people.”
The interpreter gave me an account
in what manner Papoonahoal was
at firſt enlightened, which was as
follows:
He

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He was formerly a drunken man;
but the death of his father bringing
forrow over his mind, he fell into
a thoughtful, melancholy ſtate; in
which his eyes were turned to behold
the earth, and to conſider the things
that were therein; and ſeeing the folly
and wickedneſs that prevailed, his
forrow increaſed. But his mind was
turned from beholding this lower
world, to look toward Him who
crę-
ated it, and ſtrong deſires were begot-
ten in his heart for further knowledge
of his Creator. Nevertheleſs, the Al-
mighty was not yet pleaſed to be found
of him. But his deſires increaſing, he
forfook the town, and went to the
woods in great bitterneſs of ſpirit.
The other Indians miſſing him, and
fearing evil had befallen him, went
from the town in ſearch of him; but
could not find him : but at the end of
five days, it pleaſed God to appear to
him to his comfort, and to give him a
fight of his inward ſtate, and alſo an
acquaintance with the works of na-
ture.
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ture.
For he apprehended a fenſa
was given him of the virtues and
natures of ſeveral herbs, roots, plants,
and trees, and the different rela-
tions they had to one another; and
he was made ſenſible that man ſtood
in the neareſt relation to God, of any
part of the creation. It was alſo at
this time he was made ſenſible of his
duty to God; and he came home re-
joicing, and endeavoured to put in
practice what he apprehended was
required of him. His ſtate of proba-
tion was about fix years.
The morning I parted with him at
Bethlehem, I told him I intended to
fet
my
face homewards; and if any of
you,
ſaid I, have a word of advice to
give me, I ſhall hear it gladly. After
ſome pauſe, Papoonahoal fpoke as
follows. « Brother; It diſcovers a
good diſpoſition in you to love and
“ hear good counſel.
There are
“ ſome people who ſet light by what
“ I ſay, and will not have hear me.
“ Brother; Since I firſthad deſires after
God,

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« God, people of different profeffions
66 about religion have ſpoke to me,
“ all directing me to their particular
“ way: but there is but one way
“ to the place of happineſs God
« has prepared for his creature man.
“ Brother; There are none that ever
ſpoke ſuch good words to me, as
" I have heard from the Quakers.
“ What they ſay, anſwers to what
“ was told my heart before I ſaw
66 them. - When I left home, I re-
• ſolved not to ſpeak to the Quakers,
«« but hearken and hear what they
66 would ſay to me. And ſince they
“ have ſpoke to me, I have heard
a voice ſay to my heart, The Qua-
“ kers are right. It may be a wrong
voice; but I believe it is the right
“ voice. However, if the goodneſs
· which I feel in my heart, remains
“ with me, I ſhall come agażn to ſee
“ the Quakers. And if I continue
" to grow ſtrong, I hope the time
“ will come that I ſhall be joined
“ in cloſe fellowſhip with them.”
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