Transcriber’s Note:
The corrections in the errata on page 120 have been incorporated into the original.
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CIVILIZATION
OF THE
INDIAN NATIVES;
OR,
A Brief View
OF THE FRIENDLY CONDUCT
OF
WILLIAM PENN
TOWARDS THEM
IN THE EARLY SETTLEMENT OF PENNSYLVANIA;
The subsequent care of the Society of Friends in endeavouring to promote
peace and friendship with them by pacific measures;
AND
A concise narrative of the proceedings of the Yearly Meeting of Friends, of
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and parts adjacent, since the year
1795, in promoting their improvement
AND GRADUAL CIVILIZATION.
BY HALLIDAY JACKSON.
“And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, andthey shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.”—Isaiah lxi. 4.
PHILADELPHIA:
MARCUS T. C. GOULD, No. 6, NORTH EIGHTH STREET.
NEW YORK;
ISAAC T. HOPPER, No. 420, PEARL STREET.
1830
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ADVERTISEMENT.
Our readers have, no doubt, perused with satisfaction the numbers which haveappeared from time to time in this periodical, respecting the Seneca Indians—theirhabits, superstitions, &c. The facts which these articles embraced, were rendered themore interesting, by the late difficulties which had been manifested between theUnited States, and several southern and western tribes, upon the subject of theirlands, and the right by which they held them in possession.
Since the conclusion of these interesting numbers, we have been favoured by thewriter with a more enlarged and particular narration, respecting the situation of theIndians, in the early settlement of this country—in which a concise view is presented ofthe proceedings of William Penn, in relation to them at the period of the first settlementof Pennsylvania. A very particular description is also given of the proceedings ofthe Yearly Meeting of Friends of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, &c. touching the meansadopted to increase their happiness, and improve their moral and physical condition.Many speeches, highly characteristic and beautiful, delivered by distinguished chiefs,in council, will be found interspersed through the narrative.
Having concluded, in our last number, the works of William Shewen, we thinkwe cannot better occupy, for a few weeks, the pages heretofore devoted to that work,than by appropriating them to the interesting subject, of which the above is an outline,and which the writer has kindly given us permission to publish. It may t