He is Lieut. Governour and Commander in Chief of His Majesties Province of New Hampshire, and with the Governours. and Commader in Chief of the said Province for the time being, that we and the Tribes we are deputed from will henceforth cease and forbear all Acts of Hostility, Injuries & Discords. towards all the Subjects of His Majesty King GEORGE within the said Province. And we do understand and take it that the said Government of New Hampshire is also included and comprehended in all and every the Articles aforegoing excepting that respecting the regulating the Trade with us.

And further we the aforenamed Delegates do Promise and Engage with the Honourable LAWRANCE ARMSTRONG Esq; Lieutenant Governour and Commander in Chief of His Majesties Province of Nova Scotia or L'Acadie to live in peace with His Majesties Good Subjects and their Dependants in that Government according to the Articles agreed on with Major PAUL MASCARENE Commissioned for that purpose, and further to be Ratified as mentioned in the said Articles.

That this present Treaty shall be Accepted Ratified and Confirmed in a Publick and Solemn manner by the Chiefs of the several Eastern Tribes of Indians included therein at Falmouth in Casco Bay some time in the Month of May next. In Testimony whereof we have Signed these Presents, and Affixed Our Seals. Dated at the Council Chamber in Boston in New England, this Fifteenth Day of December, Anno Domini, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Twenty-five, Annoque Regni Regis GEORGIJ, Magnæ Britanniæ, &c. Duodecimo.

Sauguaarum

Sig.

alias Loron [L. S.]

Done in the presence of the Great and General Court or Assembly of the Province of the Massachuestts Bay aforesaid, being first Read distinctly, and Interpreted by Capt. John Gyles, Capt. Samuel Jordan, and Capt. Joseph Bane, Sworn Interpreters. Attest J. WILLARD, Secr.

The Ratification of the aforesaid Articles made by the Penobscot Tribe, is Engrossed on the Original Articles in these words. We the under-written Wenemouett Chief Sachem and Sagamore of the Penobscot Tribe, and others the Chiefs, with the rest of the said Tribe now convented, having had the within Articles of Peace distinctly & deliberately Read over and Interpreted to us. Do by these Presents, in a Publick & Solemn manner, as well for our Selves as for all the within mentioned Tribes from whom we are delegated and fully impowered, Ratife Affirm and Confirm all and Singular the within written Articles of Peace to His most Sacred Majesty King GEORGE and that the same and each of them be, and shall continue and remain to be in full Force, Efficacy, and Power, to all Intents and purposes whatsoever. DONE and concluded at Falmouth

in Casco-Bay, before His Honour WILLIAM DUMMER Esq; Lieutenant Governour Commander in Chief of His Majesties Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England, And His Majesties Council of the said Province. The Honourable JOHN WENTWORTH Esq; Lieutenant Governour of His Majesties Province of New-Hampshire, and several of His Majesties Council of the said Province, and Major PAUL MASCARENE, Delegated from His Majesties Province of Nova-Scotia or L'Acadie, and the several Gentlemen that Subscribe hereto. Witness Our Hands and Seals the Fifth Day of August, in the Thirteenth Year of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lord GEORGE, by the Grace of GOD, of Great Britain, France and Ireland, KING, Defender of the Faith &c. Annoque Domini, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Twenty-Six. Signed by WENEMOUETT, Chief Sachem, and all the others of the Chiefs and others of the Penobscot Tribe aforenamed.

Auyaumowett. What we have heard from your Honour at present we shall take into Consideration 'till to Morrow, and then you shall hear from us; as for the Articles which have been read over to us, we have heard of them, but never heard them read so fully to us, and are very glad we have now heard of them, for we came for that purpose. As we are now sitting here before your Honour and see the Faces of one another, we say, This is the Place which GOD has appointed for us to see one another at, and as GOD is the Master of Prayer, we pray he would direct us all in the ways that may tend to Peace, and we desire your Honour would let us know and be so free as to hide nothing from us, and if we say any thing that is amiss or look like an affront, that you would let us know it that we may avoid it, and we shall be so on our part as to keep nothing back nor hide any thing from you in the Treaty, we ought to join heartily and be strong in the Affair, it is of great Weight and Moment, it weighs heavy. We have said.

Lt. Gov. I shall say nothing but what is exactly agreeable to the Articles of Peace, for that is what I design firmly to stand to, and if you will do the same, by the Help of GOD, all things will be well.

Auyaumowett. We shall answer your Honour to Morrow, if you will give us the Liberty of considering of it to Night.

Lt. Gov. I would now have you hear the other part, which I have Signed, because you will not be able to make your Answer so fully without it.

The Instrument His Honour Signed on the part of the Massachusetts Bay, which is in the Words following, was accordingly Read and Interpreted, Viz.

Loc. Sig.
Prov. de

Massa Bay
Nov. Ang.

By the Honourable WILLIAM DUMMER
Esq; Lieutenant Governour & Commander
in Chief of His Majesties Province of the
Massachusetts-Bay in New-England.

Whereas Sauguaarum alias Loron, Arexus, Francois, Xavier and Meganumbee, the Delegates from the Tribes of Penobscot, Nerridgawock, St. John's, Cape Sables, and other Tribes of the Eastern Indians inhabiting within His Majesties Territories of New England and Nova Scotia, declaring themselves fully impowered thereto, have in the Name and behalf of the'said Tribes Signed and Executed an Instrument of submission to His Majesty, bearing date the Fifteenth Day of this Instant December, therein firmly promising and engaging for Ever to Cease all Hostilities and Violences, and to live in Peace and Amity with all His Majesties Subjects.

I do therefore in the Name of His most Excellent Majesty GEORGE by the Grace of GOD of Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith &c. Receive and Recommend the said Tribes to his Grace and Favour, promising them the Benefit and Protection of His Majesties Laws in like manner as his English Subjects have and enjoy.

That all Acts of Hostility from this Government against the said Tribes, of Indians shall cease, and that a firm and constant Friendship and Amity shall hereafter be maintained with them.

That upon the Indians delivering up all the English Prisoners as they have engaged to do, all the Indian Captives within this Government shall likewise be set at Liberty.

That the said Indians shall peaceably Enjoy all their Lands and Properties which have not been by them conveyed and sold unto or possessed by the English, and be no ways molested or disturbed in their Planting or Improvement; and further that there be allowed them the free Liberty and Privilege of Hunting, Fishing, and Fowling, as Formerly.

And whereas it is the full Resolution of this Government that the Indians shall have no Injustice done them respecting their Lands,

I do therefore assure them that the several Claims or Titles, or so many of them as can be then had and obtained of the English to the Lands in that part of this Province shall be produced at the Ratification of the present Treaty by a Committee to be appointed by this Court in their present Session, and care be taken as far as possible to make out the same to the Satisfaction of the Indians and to distinguish and Ascertain what Lands belong to the English, in order to the Effectual Prevention of any Contention or Misunderstanding on that Head for the future.

That Commerce and Trade shall be carried on between the English and Indians according to such Directions as shall be agreed on by His Majesties Government of this Province.

That no private Revenge shall be taken by the English, but in case any person shall presume so to do, upon complaint and proof thereof, Justice shall be done the person agrieved.

In Testimony whereof I have Signed these Presents and Caused the Publick Seal of the Province of the MassachusettsBay aforesaid to be hereunto affixed.