And lastly, that both Christians and Indians should acquaint their Children with this league and firm chain of friendship made between them, and that it should always be made stronger and stronger, and be kept bright and clean without rust or spot, between... Memoirs of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Page 187by Historical Society of Pennsylvania - 1836Full view - About this book
| Peter Stephen Du Ponceau, Joshua Francis Fisher - 1836 - 74 pages
...Christians and Indians should acquaint their Children with this league and firm chain of friendship made between them, and that it should always be made...Rivers run, and while the Sun, Moon and Stars endure. And for the confirmation on our parts of all these several articles, we bind them with these several... | |
| Sherman Day - 1843 - 766 pages
...tronger & stronger & be kept bright & clean, without Rust or Spott between our Children and 'hililrt-ns Children, while the Creeks and Rivers run, and while the Sun, Moon & Stars endure." In a very elaborate memoir on the subject of this treaty, presented to he Pennsylvania... | |
| 1844 - 628 pages
...stronger and stronger, and be kept bright and clean without rust or spot, between our children and our children's children, while the creeks and rivers run, and while the sun, moon, and stars endure. What, it may be asked, were the consequences of such stipulations as these — stipulations that remained... | |
| Jared Sparks - 1847 - 442 pages
...silk around his waist, as the most simple badge. The pledges there given were to hold their sanctity " while the creeks and rivers run, and while the sun, moon, and stars endure." Whilst the whites preserved in written records the memory of such covenants, the Indians had their... | |
| Samuel Mcpherson Janney - 1852 - 574 pages
...Christians and Indians should acquaint their children with this league and firm chain of friendship made between them, and that it should always be made...rivers run, and while the sun, moon and stars endure." The elm tree, at Kensington, under which the treaty was ratified, called the treaty tree, was blown... | |
| William Henry Carpenter - 1854 - 376 pages
...Christians and Indians should acquaint their children with this league and firm chain of friendship made between them; and that it should always be made...rivers run, and while the sun, moon, and stars endure." 7* It would be pleasant to know whether the above "heads" are the Indian understanding of the treaty,... | |
| James Bowden - 1854 - 426 pages
...stronger and stronger, and be kept bright and clear without rust or spot, between our children and our children's children, while the creeks and rivers run, and while the sun, moon, and stars endure." * Heckwelder, Hist. Trans. American Phil. Soc., p. 176. t Watson's Annals of Philadelphia, and Oldmixon's... | |
| james bowden - 1854 - 428 pages
...stronger and stronger, and be kept bright and clear without rust or spot, between our children and our children's children, while the creeks and rivers run, and while the sun, moon, and stars endure." * Heckwelder, Hist. Trans. American Phil. Soc., p. 176. + Watson's Annals of Philadelphia, and Oldmixon's... | |
| John Fanning Watson - 1855 - 686 pages
...items, concluding that amity and friendship was to exist between them for ever, or — " as long as the Creeks and Rivers run, and while the sun, moon, and stars endure," " and lastly, that both Christians and Indians should acquaint their children with this league and... | |
| Henry Harvey - 1855 - 356 pages
...kept bright and clean, without rust or spot, between their children and our children's children, while creeks and rivers run, and while the sun, moon, and stars endure." The nine articles thus recited by Governor Gordon, are, (he observes,) only the chief heads of this... | |
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