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" Miquon, and there lay all his " words' or speeches, with 'those of his descendants, on a blanket or clean piece of bark, and with great satisfaction go successively over the whole. This practice (which I have repeatedly witnessed) continued until the... "
Quakerism and Politics: Essays - Page 34
by Isaac Sharpless - 1905 - 224 pages
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Sketches of the History, Manners, and Customs of the North ..., Volume 1

James Buchanan - Indian mythology - 1824 - 350 pages
...successively over the whole. This practice (which I have repeatedly witnessed) continued until the year 1760, when the disturbances which then took place put an end to it, probably for ever. These pleasing remembrances, these sacred usages are no more. " When we treat with the white...
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Sketches of the History, Manners, and Customs of the North American Indians

James Buchanan - Indians of North America - 1824 - 480 pages
...successively over the whole. This practice (which I have repeatedly witnessed) continued until the year 1 780, when the disturbances which then took place put an end to it, probably for ever. These pleasing remembrances, these sacred usages are no more. "When we treat with the white...
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Historical Collections of the State of Pennsylvania: Containing a Copicus ...

Sherman Day - Pennsylvania - 1843 - 766 pages
...go over the whole. This practice, which I have repeatedly iritnetted, continued until it- year 17SO, when the disturbances which then took place put an end to it, probably lor ever." Perhaps it will be asked how they could do that, who were entirely ignorant of the art of...
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The History of Pennsylvania from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time

William Henry Carpenter - Pennsylvania - 1854 - 376 pages
...great satisfaction go over the whole. This practice, which I have repeatedly witnessed, continued till the year 1780, when the disturbances which then took place put an end to it, probably for ever." The name Miguon has the same signification as Onas. The Indians assembled at Shackamaxon...
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History, Manners, and Customs of the Indian Nations: Who Once ..., Volume 12

John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder - Algonquians - 1876 - 482 pages
...successively over the whole. This practice (which I have repeatedly witnessed) continued until the year I7So, when the disturbances which then took place put an end to it, probably for ever. These pleasing remembrances, these sacred usages are no more. " When we treat with the white...
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Two Centuries of Pennsylvania History

Isaac Sharpless - Pennsylvania - 1900 - 456 pages
...similar to those where they used to meet their brother Mignon (their name for Penn), and there lay all his ' words' or speeches with those of his descendants...then took place put an end to it, probably forever." General WH Harrison says of the Delaware Indians, "A long and intimate knowledge of them in peace and...
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The Architectural Review and American Builders' Journal, Volume 1

Samuel Sloan - Architecture - 1869 - 978 pages
...go " successively over the whole This " practice, which I have frequently wit"nessed, continued till the year 1780, " when the disturbances which then took " place put an end to it, probably for" ever." They had, in their strings and belts of wampum, an artificial memory, refreshed by constant...
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