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The Plain Dealer, Numb. III - 12

S-----l R-----ds, Ed-----d P---nn---n, I-----e P------n and J------h G---ll---y, and a messenger was sent with a letter to the royal Teedyuskung, persuading him that the time and place they had appointed to meet Sir W---m J---hnf---n would not be suitable. The letter concludes with this friendly caution. “And as we think, Bretheren, you will be willing to have the business well done, we desire you not to come from Wyoming, till you hear the Western Indians are come to Shomokin, and then come down to the to the same place, they do, where we shall order provisions for you.”-----This letter was found and transmitted by Sir W---m J---hnf---n to the Lords Commissioners. However the Indians depending on the experienced friendship of the Quakers came to the treaty; the Quakers came also. You will soon find their business; for in Sir W---m’s report to the Lords of Trade, there is this account: “On the 21st of June the Proprietors defence to Teedyuskung’s complaint of the 19th being read together with the deeds, and papers therein referred to, Teedyusking declared, that he and the Indians well understood the purport and meaning of them; and yet on the next day at a continuance of this conference, Teedyusking (having in the mean time been counciled by Quakers) denied that he or any of his people understood what passed the day before”. He also reflected on his Majesty’s agent as not intending to do him justice. Sir W---m. further observes, and “That Teedyusking was stimulated to these jealousies and instigated to this behavior, will appear to your Lordships by the affidavits (of 6 persons) which I lay before your Lordships, by which it appears that all Teedyusking said on the 22 of June was by the directions of Isr-----l P--------n a principal person among the Quakers, who with several others of that denomination attended at this treaty, and by the last affidavit, it appears that Teedyusking declared that

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Mistakenly attributed by Evans to Hugh Williamson, author of numbers 1 and 3. Cf. the Advertisement in number 3, where it is stated: The author of this is obliged to the gentleman, who wrote the piece which was published on Teusday [sic], by the title of Plain dealer, no. 2. As his endeavours to prevent the people from being deceived by the chicane of a faction, prove him to be a friend to the oppress'd inhabitants of this province. Dated May 7, 1764. Imprint supplied by Evans.