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not to do^^ — ^laid up no stores from which they could 

 supply the wants of their white brethren — depending^ 

 entirely upon Nature's store-house ; believing that their 

 hands were not made to labor with, but to have rule 

 over the birds of the air, the fishes of the stream^ 

 and the game in Nature's park. 



In Schoharie, having permission from the Indians, this 

 colony commenced, under discouraging circumstances, 

 improving lands and building houses. They labored 

 for ten years, when they were dispersed; and in 1723, a 

 portion of them, surrounded by difficulties in travelling, 

 rising of tiiree hundred miles, seated themselves, some 

 eighty or ninety miles from Philadelphia, at Swatara and 

 Tulpehocken.* Among this number were the Weisers,t 

 whose descendants are numerous and respectable ; these 

 are the Muhlenbergs and others. 



*HaUische Nachrichten. 



fConrad Weiser, who remained in New York, when his 

 father came here in 1723, arrived at Tulpehocken in 1729. In 

 a subsequent page the reader will find a notice of C. W, 



