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John Peirce Notes, on a visit to Several Tribes of Indians, 1796

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to remark, that we have found, since we came to this Place, serious Occasion for the Necessity of Friends, both in a collective and private Capacity, being scrupulously guarded in the Letters they send to these people; for we find them very ingenious in construing them to their own advantage; and they appear to hold them little inferior, in point of Obligation to the most absolute Contrasts. 14th. Attended a general Coun-cil of the Oneida’s, at their