Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-12-04

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very careful being far and back
inhabitants to keep friendly cor
respondence with the native In.
dians, giving them no occasion Of
0nenSe; they begin cruel and
merciless enemy, where they think
they are wronged or defrauded Of
their rights as wofa experience
hath taught in Carolina, Virginia
and Maryland, and especially in
New England, &c; and
"SecOndly. AS nature hath given
them and their forefathers the
possession Of this continent OF
America Tor this wildernessl, they
had a natural right thereto in
Justice aud equity; and no people,
according to the law Of nature
and Justice and our own principle,
which is according to the gIorions
gospel Of our dear and holy Jesus
Christ, ought to take away or settle
on other mems lands or rights with
out consent, or purchasing the
same by agreement Of parties con-
cerned which suppose in your
case is not yet done.
"Thirdly. Therefore my counsel
and Christian advice TO you Is, my
dear friends, that the most repu.
table among you do with speed
endeavor to agree with and pur'
chase your lands of the native In
dians or inhabitants. Take ex-
ample OF our worthy and honor
able late proprietor William Penn;
who by the wise and religious care
lin that relation, hath settled .
lasting peace and commerce with
| the natives, and through bis pru'
1
dent management therein hath
been instrumental to plant in peace
. one of the most fiourishing prov
| inees in the world.
"Fourthly. Who would run the
| risk of the lives Of their wives and
children, for the sparing a little
cost and pains am concerned
TO Law these things before you, un'
der an uncommon exercise OF mind,
that your new and flourishlng
little settlement may not be LAID
waste, ard lif the providence OF
Almighty doth not intervene, some
of the blood of yourselves, wives
or children, be shed or split on the
ground.
"Fiftbly. Consider you are in
the province Of Virginia, holding
2 what rights you have under that
} | government; and the Nirglnians
q nave made an agreement with the
, natives to 90 as far as the noun
tains and no farther; and you are
{ over and beyond the mountains,
; therefore out Of that agreement;
e by which you lie open to the in-
suits and incursions of the South
ern Indians, who have destroyed
many of the inhabitants OF caro-
lima and Virginia, and even now
5 DESTROYED more on the like oc-
. casion. The English going beyond
, the bounds of their agreement,
eleven of them were killed by the
Indians while we were travelling
in Virginia.
. "SixthIy. If you believe yonr.
, selves to be within the bounds
of William PENIS patent from
King Charles the second, which
will bc Hard for you to prove, You
: being far southwark of his line, yet
} if done. that will be no consider
alton with the Indians without y
purchase from them, except you
will 90 about to convince them by
5 fire and sword, contrary to our
q principles; and if that were done,
+ thew would ever be lmplacaOle
r enemies, and tha land could never
o be enjoyed in peace.
" Seventhly. Please to note thas
; in Pennsylvania no new settle
G ments are made without an agree
0 ment with the natives as witness
p Lancaster county, lately settled,
though that is far within the grant
> of William Penn's patent from
;, King Charles the second where
: lore YOU lie open to the insurree'
p tions of the Northern rs well as
= Southern Indians; and
Lastly. Thus having shown my
j good will to yon and to your new
s. little settlement, that you might
2. sit every ore under your own
r shady tree, where none might
. make YOU afraid, and tnat You
might prosper naturally and spirit
IL uaily. YOU aud yonr children and
L having little eased my mind OF
IS that weight and concern in some
# measure that lay upon me, at
. present desist, and Subscribe my
self. in the love of cur holy Lori
o Jesus Christ, your real friend,
N T.C.
le This excellent letter from this
Is good man proves that the Qnakers
~ we're among our earliest settlers.
. and that this class Of people were
y early disposed to do justice to the
natives OF the rOuntry.
IL Had this human and just policy
ID of purchasing the Indian lands
no been first adopted and adhered to,
~, It is highly probable the white
III people might have gradually Oh
lis tained possession without the loss
th of so much blood aud treasure.
l, The ancestors OF the NeillS
- Walkers, BranSons, McKayS, Hack
news. Beesons, Luptous, BanettS
as Dillons. &c, we're among the ear
on liest Quaker immigrants to oul
h, Valley. Three Quakers by the
II. name of Fawcett settled at Al
oc early period about : or0 miles
- south of Winchester, near Zane
old iron works, from whom a pretty
! numerous progeny has descended
J They have, however, chiefly MI
al grated to the west.
Mr.. Jefferson, in his notes oi
bit Virginia, says, "Tbat the lands o
Nv. this country we're taken from then
nd Ohe ludians,) by conquest, is no
Or SO general truth as Is supposed
oi' | find H. oar historians and records