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The Address of the People Called Quakers - 6

Situation of our fellow Subjects on the Frontiers prevailing, in order that they might be capable of rendering some effectual Service, they freely Contributed considerable Sums of Money, and engaged others in like Manner to contribute, so that about Five Thousand Pounds Was raised in order to be employed for the Service of the Public, and chief Part thereof hath been since expended in Presents given at the Public Treaties, (where they were sometimes delivered by the Governors of this Province, and at other Times with their Privity and Permission) for promoting the salutary Measures of regaining and confirming Peace with the Indians; and procuring the Release of our Countrymen in Captivity; and thereby a considerable Number have been restored to their Friends. And we find that the Measures thus pursued being made known to the King’s Generals, who from Time to Time were here, and having been communicated by an Address sent to the Proprietaries of this Province in England; appear by their written Answers, and other Testimonials to have received their Countenance and Approbation. This being the Case, and the Conduct of those concern’d in these Affairs evidently contrary to the Intent and Tendency of the Assertion contain’d in the said unsign’d Declaration, pretended to be founded on the Records of the County of Berks, we do not apprehend it necessary to say any more thereon, than that we are (after proper enquiry) assured, that nothing of that kind is to be found on those Records, and that the private Minute made by CONRAD WEISER of a Report he had received from two Indians, of a Story they had heard from another Indian, preten-

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