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" 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 187
by Historical Society of Pennsylvania - 1836
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A Memoir on the History of the Celebrated Treaty Made by ..., Volume 3, Part 2

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...
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Historical Collections of the State of Pennsylvania: Containing a Copicus ...

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...
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The Monthly Review

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...
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The Library of American Biography, Volume 12

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...
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The Life of William Penn: With Selections from His Correspondence and Auto ...

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...
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The History of Pennsylvania from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time

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,...
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The History of the Society of Friends in America, Volume 2

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...
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the history of the society of friends in america

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...
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Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania: Being a Collection of Memoirs ...

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...
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History of the Shawnee Indians, from the Year 1681 to 1854, Inclusive

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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