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A series of letters written on a Journey to the Oneida, Onondago, and Cayuga Tribes of the Five Nations, by Joseph Sansom

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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 themyself the bearer of the next intelligence from Your Joseph Sansom