And lastly, that both Christians and Indians should acquaint their Children with this league and firm chain of friendship made between them, and that it should always be made stronger and stronger, and be kept bright and clean without rust or spot, between... Scribners Monthly - Page 21876Full view - About this book
| Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Bibliography - 1836 - 264 pages
...stronger and stronger, 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. And for the confirmation on our parts of all these several articles, we bind them with these several... | |
| Peter Stephen Du Ponceau, Joshua Francis Fisher - Indians of North America - 1836 - 74 pages
...stronger and stronger, 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. And for the confirmation on our parts of all these several articles, we bind them with these several... | |
| William Evans, Thomas Evans - Quakers - 1841 - 552 pages
...stronger and stronger, 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... | |
| Sherman Day - Pennsylvania - 1843 - 766 pages
...tronger & stronger & be kept bright & clean, without Rust or Spott between our Children and 'hililrt-ns Children, while the Creeks and Rivers run, and while the Sun, Moon & Stars endure." In a very elaborate memoir on the subject of this treaty, presented to he Pennsylvania... | |
| Books - 1844 - 628 pages
...stronger and stronger, and be 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... | |
| Jared Sparks - United States - 1847 - 442 pages
...silk 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... | |
| Samuel Mcpherson Janney - 1852 - 580 pages
...stronger and stronger, 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." The elm tree, at Kensington, under which the treaty was ratified, called the treaty tree, was blown... | |
| James Bowden - Society of Friends - 1854 - 426 pages
...stronger and stronger, and be 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... | |
| james bowden - 1854 - 428 pages
...stronger and stronger, and be 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... | |
| William Henry Carpenter - Pennsylvania - 1854 - 376 pages
...stronger and stronger, 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." 7* It would be pleasant to know whether the above "heads" are the Indian understanding of the treaty,... | |
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