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Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania: Being a Collection of Memoirs ... - Page 145
by John Fanning Watson - 1855
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Memoirs of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Bibliography - 1836 - 262 pages
...should be open to the Christians as welcome friends on both sides ;" and finally, this mutual amity was to exist between them for ever, — or " as long...Rivers run, and while the Sun, Moon, and Stars endure." The consideration articles, given in that Treaty, made at Conestogo in 1728, as I understood the sense...
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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 - Indians of North America - 1836 - 74 pages
...and be kept bright and clean without rust or spot, between our children and children's children while the Creeks and Rivers run, and while the Sun, Moon and Stars endure. This is the only authentic account that we possess of the etipulations of the great treaty, and we...
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The Friends' Library: Comprising Journals, Doctrinal Treatises ..., Volume 5

William Evans, Thomas Evans - Quakers - 1841 - 552 pages
...and be kept bright and clean without rust or spot, between our children and children's children while the creeks and rivers run, and while the sun, moon and stars endure. "This is the only authentic account that we possess of the stipulations of the great treaty, and we...
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The Monthly Review

Books - 1844 - 628 pages
...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 - United States - 1847 - 442 pages
...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 - 580 pages
...be kept bright and clean, without rust or spot, between our children and children's children, while the creeks and 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 the Society of Friends in America, Volume 2

James Bowden - Society of Friends - 1854 - 426 pages
...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
...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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The History of Pennsylvania from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time

William Henry Carpenter - Pennsylvania - 1854 - 376 pages
...be kept bright and clean, without rust or spot, between our children and children's children, while the creeks and 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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History of the Shawnee Indians, 1851-1854 Inclusive

Henry Harvey - 1855 - 334 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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