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Some Account of Rachel Coope (Journal B)

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attending some of their Councils, as is common to experience in attending a Quarterly Meeting. But it will take us some time before their Language will become familiar and we can get to understand it. __ About 30 of the Indians has since joined, and opened the Road proposed, which will be an advantage to us as well as to them, a grand piece of work for Indians, it being copletley done. Cornplanter did not attend the Counsil, but has since been here. I did not deliver the message to him for want of an Interpreter, Jacob Taylor saying he thought he could not make him understand which of the friends that were here was thee. There was a paragraph in the address from the Committee, to the Indians, sent by us, recommending, that when any of them has done any thing, that another does not like, they should not differ about it, but forgive him that had done the wrong, for the good Spirit