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" It is only known, that they solemnly pledged themselves, according to their country manner, to live in love with William Penn and his children as long as the Sun and Moon should endure. "
The Philanthropist, Or, Repository for Hints and Suggestions Calculated to ... - Page 218
1814
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History of the United States: From the Discovery of the American ..., Volume 2

George Bancroft - United States - 1839 - 494 pages
...sincerity ; and with hearty friendship they gave the belt of wampum. " We will live," said they, " in love with William Penn and his children, as long as the moon and the sun shall endure." This treaty of peace and friendship was made under the open sky, by...
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Peace, Permanent and Universal: Its Practicability, Value, and Consistency ...

Henry Tyrwhitt Jones Macnamara - Peace - 1841 - 402 pages
...same as if one man's body was to be divided into two parts. The Indians in return pledged themselves to live in love with William Penn and his children, as long as the sun and moon shall endure." For the space of more than seventy years, and so long indeed as the Quakers retained...
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The Ladies' Repository, Volume 17

Methodist Episcopal Church - 1857 - 830 pages
...conquest he had gained over them? Who can wonder that they should have declared with one voice, "We will live in love with William Penn and his children as long as the moon and the sun shall endure !" And who can wonder why it should have been, as the historian has told...
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History of the Colonization of the United States, Volume 2

George Bancroft - United States - 1841 - 366 pages
...sincerity ; and with hearty friendship they gave the belt of wampum. " We will live," said they, " in love with William Penn and his children, as long as the moon and the sun shall endure." This treaty of peace and friendship was made under the open sky, by...
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The Ladies' Pearl: A Monthly Magazine, Volume 2

1842 - 622 pages
...sincerity ; and with hearty friendship they gave the helt of wampum. " We will live," said they, " in love with William Penn and his children, as long as the moon and the sun shall endure." They "returned to their wigwams, kept the history of the covenant hy...
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A Book of the United States: Exhibiting Its Geography, Divisions ...

Grenville Mellen - United States - 1843 - 866 pages
...generations. The Indians cordially acceded to his propositions, and solemnly pledged themselves tn live in love with William Penn and his children as long as the sun and moon should endure. Having received information from his agent that his presence was necessary in England, Penn departed...
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The Lady's Pearl, Volumes 3-4

Women - 1843 - 316 pages
...sincerity ; and with hearty friendship they gave the belt of wampum. " We will live," said they, " in love with William Penn and his children, as long as the moon and the sun shall endure." They "-returned to their wigwams, kept the history of the covenant...
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Some Account of the Conduct of the Religious Society of Friends ..., Issue 9

Society of Friends. London Yearly Meeting. Meeting for Sufferings. Aborigines' Committee - Indians of North America - 1844 - 266 pages
...also to be regretted that the speeches of the Indians on this memorable day have not come down to us. It is only known, that they solemnly pledged themselves,...children as long as the sun and moon should endure. Thus ended this famous treaty, of which more has been said in the way of praise than of any other ever...
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The Pictorial History of the United States of America: From the ..., Volumes 1-2

John Frost - United States - 1844 - 494 pages
...WITH THE INDIANS. which they promised to keep for three generations, and solemnly pledged themselves to live in love with William Penn and his children as long as the sun and moon should endure. After Penn had landed at New Castle, he had repaired to Chester, where, on the 4th of December, he...
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Contributions to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 4

Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - English essays - 1844 - 622 pages
...harangues — of which, however, no more seems to have been remembered, but that " they pledged themselves to live in love with William Penn and his children, as long as the sun and moon should endure-." And thus ended this famous treaty ; — of which Voltaire has remarked, with so much truth and severity,...
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