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We thank you for the many Declarations of Respect you have given us, in this folemn Renewal of our Treaties: We receive, and fhall keep your String and Belts of Wampum, as Pledges of your Sincerity, and defire thofe we gave you may be carefully preferved, as Teftimonies of ours.

In Answer to what you fay about the Proprietaries. They are all abfent, and have taken the Keys of their Cheft with them; fo that we cannot, on their Behalf, enlarge the Quantity of Goods: Were they here, they might perhaps, be more generous; but we cannot be liberal for them.-The Government will, however, take your Request into Confideration; and in Regard to your Poverty, may perhaps make you a Prefent. I but juft mention this now, intending to refer this Part of your Speech to be answered at our next Meeting.

The Number of Guns, as well as every Thing elfe, answers exactly with the Particulars fpeci•fied in your Deed of Conveyance, which is more than was agreed to be given you. It was your own Sentiments, that the Lands on the Weft-fide of Safquabannah, were not fo valuable as thofe on the Eaft, and an Abatement was to be made, proportionable to the Difference in Value: But the Proprietor overlooked this, and ordered the 'full Quantity to be delivered, which you will • look on as a Favour.

It is very true, that Lands are of late become more valuable; but what raises their Value? Is it not entirely owing to the Industry and Labour ufed by the white People, in their Cultivation and Improvement? Had not they come amongst

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you, thefe Lands would have been of no Ufe to you, any further than to maintain you. And is there not, now you have fold fo much, enough • left for all the Purposes of Living ?--What you fay of the Goods, that they are foon worn out, is applicable to every Thing; but know very you well, that they coft a great deal of Money; and the Value of Land is no more, than it is worth in • Money.

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On your former Complaints against People's fettling the Lands on Juniata, and from thence all along on the River Safquabannah as far as Mahaniaby, fome Magiftrates were fent exprefly to re'move them, and we thought no Perfons would prefume to stay after that.'

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Here they interrupted the Governor, and said :— "Thefe Perfons who were fent did not do their Duty: So far from removing the People, they "made Surveys for themselves, and they are in League with the Trefpaffers. We defire more "effectual Methods may be used, and honester Perfons employed."

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According to the Promife made at our laft Treaty with you, Mr. Logan, who was at that Time Prefident, did write to the Governor of Maryland, that he might make you Satisfaction for fuch of your Lands as his People had taken up, but did not receive one Word from him upon that Head. I will write to him again, and endeavour to procure you a fatisfactory Anfwer. We do not doubt but he will do you Juftice: But we exhort you to be careful not to exercife any Acts of Violence towards his People, as they likewife are our Brethren, and Subjects of the fame great King; and therefore Violence to

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I fhall conclude what I have to fay at this Time, ⚫ with Acknowledgments for your Prefent; which ⚫ is very agreeable to us, from the Expreffions of Regard used by you in prefenting it: Gifts of this Nature receiving their Value from the Affection of the Giver, and not from the Quantity of • Price of the Thing given.'

At a COUNCIL held at Philadelphia, July 8, 1742.

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The Board taking into Confideration, whether it be proper or not at this Time, to make a Present to the Indians of the Six Nations now in Town, in Return for their Prefent to this Government at Yesterday's Treaty;

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That it is highly fit and proper that a Prefent be made to the faid Indians at this Time.

And it is the Opinion of this Board, that the faid Prefent fhould be of the Value of 500 1. or at least 3001.

And it is recommended to Mr. Logan, Mr. Prefton, and Mr. Lawrence, to acquaint Mr. KinJey, the Speaker of the Affembly, with the Opinion of this Board; and that they requeft him to confer with fuch other Members of Affembly as are in Town, and report their Sentiments thereupon.

The Board taking into Confideration the Threats expreffed by the Indians, at the Treaty Yefterday,

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against the Inhabitants of Maryland, fettled on cer tain Lands on the Weft-fide of Safquabannah, which the Indians claim, and for which they require Satisfaction; and confidering, that should those Threats, in any Sort be put in Execution, not only the Inhabitants of Maryland, but of this GovernAfment, and all his Majefty's Subjects on the Northern Continent of America, may thereby be involved in much Trouble: It is the Opinion of this Board, that the Governor write to the Governor of Maryland without Delay, to inform him of the Indians Complaints and Threats, and to request a fatisfactory Answer; and that his Letter be fent by a fpecial Meffenger, at the publick Expence.

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At a COUNCIL held July 9, 1742.

PRESENT,

The Honourable GEORGE THOMAS, Efq;
Lieutenant-Governor.

James Logan, Efq;
Clement Plumfted, Efq;

Samuel Hafell, Efq;
Robert Strettell, Efq;

Samuel Prefton, Esq;
Ralph Afbeton, Efq;
Thomas Lawrence, Efq;-
Mr. Peters.

The Governor informed the Board, that the Indian Chiefs dining with him Yesterday, after Dinner delivered their Anfwer to two Affairs of Confequence:

The first related to the violent Battery committed on William Webb, in the Forks of Delaware, whereby his Jaw-bone was broke, and his Life greatly endangered, by an unknown Indian. Canaffatego repeating the Meffage delivered to the Six Nations by Shickcalamy, in the Year 1740, with a String of Wampum, faid in Anfwer: The Six Nations had • made diligent Enquiry into the Affair, and had < found out the Indian who had committed the Fact; he lived near Afopus, and had been examined and feverely reprov'd: And they hoped,

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as William Webb was recovered, the Governor would not expect any further Punishment; and therefore they returned the String of Wampum received from their Brethren, by the Hand of Shickcalamy, in Token that they had fully complied with their Request.'

I thank'd them, faid he, for their Care; but reminded them, that though the Man did not die, yet he lay a long Time in extreme Mifery, and would never recover the free Ufe of his Speech, and was render ed lefs able to get his Livelihood; and in fuch Cafes the English Laws obliged the Affailant to make good all Damages, befides paying for the Pain endured.But as the Indian was, in all Probability, poor and unable to make Satisfaction, I told them, that for their Sake I would forgive him; adding, had Webb died, I make no Doubt but you would have put the Indian to Death, juft as we did two of our People who had killed an Indian; we caufed them to be hung on a Gallows, in the Prefence of many Hundreds of our People, to deter all others from doing the like. Canaffatego made me this Reply: The Indians know no Punishment but Death; they have no fuch Thing as pecuniary Mul&s; if a Man be guilty of a Crime, he is either put to Death, or the Fault is overlook'd. We have often heard of your Hanging-up thofe two Perfons; but as none of our Indians faw the Men die, many believe they were not hanged, but tranfported to fome other Colony: And it would be fatisfactory to the Indians, if, for the future, fome of them be fent for, to be Witneffes of fuch • Executions.' I affured them, that whoever gave them that Information, abused them; for the Perfons certainly fuffered Death, and in the Prefence of all the People.

Canaffatego then proceeded to give an Answer to what was faid to them the 2d Inftant, relating to Le Tort's Letter: That they had, in Council, • confidered

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