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385 posted on 04/11/2013 7:34:26 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (My faith and politics cannot be separated)
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In this resolution, Congress makes public lands available to a group for religious purposes. Responding to a plea from Bishop John Ettwein (1721-1802), Congress voted that 10,000 acres on the Muskingum River in the present state of Ohio "be set apart and the property thereof be vested in the Moravian Brethren . . . or a society of the said Brethren for civilizing the Indians and promoting Christianity." The Delaware Indians were the intended beneficiaries of this Congressional resolution.

Records of the Continental Congress in the Constitutional Convention, July 27, 1787


386 posted on 04/11/2013 7:37:34 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (My faith and politics cannot be separated)
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