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cr christian appointment! Indian converts to christi* 

 anity, if history be trile, have been gained in America by 

 Catholics, Puritans, Moravians, Baptists, &c.;* but no 

 records are extant, showing the probable number of 

 conversions of Indians to Christianity, by Quakers, 

 though it is admitted, some of the Friends preached 

 with much freedom to them. 



Penn, in 1700, formed a new treaty with the Susque- 

 hanna, the Shawanese, the Ganawese,t and tribes of the 

 Five Nations. This treaty provided for perpetual peace 

 and good officers between the parties, confirmed to the 

 Indians the benefits, and subjected them to the penalties 

 of the English law, in their intercourse with the whites : 

 it stipulated that both parties should refuse credence to 

 unauthorized reports of hostility intended by either : that 

 the Indians should never suffer strange tribes to settle in 

 any part of the province without permission from the 

 Governor : that no European should engage in the Indian 

 trade without the license of the government ; and lastly^ 

 in the neighborhood of the Conestogo, should be con- 



* According to Stiles' Literary Diary, there were in 1696, 

 thirty Indian churches in New England. — Holmes, Z. 459. 



f The Piscatawise, or Ganawese, having removed nearer the 

 Susquehanna Indicins, in 1698, met William Penn in council 

 in May, ITOl, and entered into new articles of agreement; 

 the Susquehanna Indians became sureties for their peaceabl 

 behavior.— Proud I. 428.— Col. Rec. II. 9-12. 



"William Penn permitted the Piscatawese or Ganawese, to 

 remove higher up the Potomoc, within his claim ; and tradi- 

 tion says, he purchased their right of soil on the Potomoc, to 

 strengthen his demand on Lord Baltimore." — Lan, Intdl. tf- 

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