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1793 WD 6mo: 12 4 whole Country from them, & deprive them from making a living for their Wives & Children, and that they were determined now to make a stand, and that the Ohio should be the boundary between them and the white People, It appears from various well authenticated accounts, that the unhappy difference between us & the Indians is owing to an avericious Disposition mankind is too prone to, the ingrocing more Land than they really need, & too often by unjustifiable Means, the Indians say, if the white People really wanted Land, they should have it, they laugh at the folly of the white People, they say, they believe the Almighty has made Land enough for us all, & altho' he has been pleased to make them propriators of the Soil, they do not apprehend it to be his Pleasure that one part of the Creation should have abundance, whilst the other hav not sufficient to raise their Bread, and as it was made for the good of the whole, (mankind) they do not understand it's being taken from them by force & fraud, a Delaware of some considerable Account said to one of the Moravian Missioners, after the sale of the Lands at blank space he supposed Lands must now be cheap in the United States, he said he did not rank with the foremost, but he possessed as much Land as a man could walk over in half a day, and when the goods came to be divided, he had but about the Value of a pair of Leggons to his share, that he did not believe that the Land was given by the good Spirit for one part of the Creation to ingroce? & to make advantage of their Brethren

13 5 Joseph Moore John Elliott & myself dined with Col England, the Table was large & filled with a Company of well behaved Gentlemen, mostly Officers, and spread with great Variety, equal to most great People's Tables in Philadelphia, if Friends keep their places, they are lead in the Cross, and therefore cannot take much Pleasure in going into such Company; but I was thankful to feel there was something near to preserve, that I had a comfortable Hope, Trust did not suffer on our account, our Conversation was principally on the subject of war & Slavery, The next day but one we were invited to dine with the Officers at their mess house