People. This League has often fince been re'new'd by friendly Treaties; and as you have declared that the Friendship fhall always last on your Parts, fo we would have you believe that it • fhall remain inviolable on ours while the Sun and • Moon endure.

• I gave you fome Expectation of a Prefent, and we have it now ready to deliver to you. This • Present is made you by the Governor, Council, Affembly, and all our People, in Confideration of the great Miseries and Distreffes which you our good Friends have lately fuffered. This will be ⚫ fome Relief to you for the prefent, and it's to be hoped your own Industry will foon retrieve your • Circumstances.

It has fometimes happened, and may happen again, that idle and untrue Stories are carried to you concerning us your Brethren; but our Defire is, and we expect it from you, that you will give "no Credit to them; for we are, and always will be, your fteady and fincere Friends.

It is a Cuftom when we renew our Treaties with our good Friends the Indians, to clear the Road, and make our Fire burn bright: We have done fo upon this Occafion; and, in Token of our Sincerity, we deliver you, as a Prefent from the Governor, the Council, the Affembly, and all the People of Penfylvania, the following Goods, viz. 24 Guns.

50 Hoes.
50 Hatchets.

5
Pounds of Vermilion
10 Dozen of Knives.
8 Dozen of Gimblets.
2 Dozen of Tobacco-

Tongs. 25 Pair of Shoes. 25 Pair of Stockings. 25 Pair of Buckles.

Where

Whereupon the Chiefs, and all the Indians, returned their folemn Thanks; and Canaffatego faid,

They had no more to fay as to publick Bufinefs • at prefent; but they had fomewhat under Deliberation, which, when they had duly confidered, · they would communicate.

At á COUNCIL held at the Proprietor's, July 12, 1742.

PRESENT

The Honourable GEORGE THOMAS, Efq; Lieutenant-Governor.

James Logan,

Clement Plumfted,

Thomas Lawrence, Abraham Taylor, Efqrs;
Robert Strettell,

Mr. Richard Peters.

CANASSATEGO, Į And fundry Chiefs of the Six

SHICKCALAMY,

Nations.

SASSOONAN, and the Delawares.

NUTTIMUS, and the Fork-Indians. CONRAD WEISER, Interpreter. Pifquetoman,

Cornelius Spring, Interpreters to the Fork-Indians. Nicholas Scull,

CANASSATEGO faid:

• BRETHREN, the Governor and Council,

The other Day you informed us of the Misbehaviour of our Coufins the Delawares, with respect to their continuing to claim, and refusing to • remove from fome Land on the River Delaware, ⚫ notwithstanding their Ancestors had fold it by a • Deed under their Hands and Seals to the Proprietaries, for a valuable Confideration, upwards of fifty Years ago; and notwithstanding that, they themselves had alfo not many Years ago, after a

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• long and full Examination, ratified that Deed of their Ancestors, and given a fresh one under their Hands and Seals; and then you requefted us to remove them, inforcing your Request with a String of Wampum.-Afterwards we laid on the Table our own Letters by Conrad Weifer; fome of our Coufins Letters, and the feveral Writings to prove the Charge againft our Coufins, with a Draught of the Land in Difpute.-We now tell you, we have perufed all these feveral • Papers: We fee with our own Eyes, that they have been a very unruly People, and are altogether in the Wrong in their Dealings with you.• We have concluded to remove them, and oblige them to go over the River Delaware, and quit all Claim to any Lands on this Side for the future, fince they have received Pay for them, and it is gone thro' their Guts long ago. To confirm to you that we will fee your Requeft executed, we lay ⚫ down this String of Wampum in return for yours.

Then turning to the Delawares, holding a Belt of Wampum in his Hand, he fpoke to them as follows:

• Let this Belt of Wampum ferve to chastise you. You ought to be taken by the Hair of the • Head and shaked feverely, till you recover your • Senfes and become fober. You don't know what Ground you ftand on, nor what you are doing. • Our Brother Onas's Caufe is very juft and plain, and his Intentions are to preferve Friendship. On ⚫ the other Hand, your Caufe is bad; your Heart far ⚫ from being upright; and you are maliciously bent to break the Chain of Friendfhip with our Brother Onas, and his People. We have 'feen with our Eyes a Deed fign'd by nine of your Anceftors above fifty Years ago for this very Land, and a Releafe fign'd, not many Years fince, by fome • of

⚫ of yourselves and Chiefs now living, to the Num-
<ber of fifteen or upwards.-But how came you to
take upon you to fell Land at all? We conquer-
ed you; we made Women of you; you know
you are Women, and can no more fell Land than
• Women; nor is it fit you fhould have the Power
of felling Lands, fince you would abuse it. This
Land that you claim is gone thro' your Guts ;
• you have been furnished with Cloaths, Meat, and
Drink, by the Goods paid you for it, and now
you want it again, like Children as you are.-
But what makes you fell Land in the Dark? Did
you ever tell us that you had fold this Land?
• Did we ever receive any Part, even the Value of
a Pipe-Shank, from you for it? You have told
us a blind Story, that you fent a Meffenger to us
• to inform us of the Sale, but he never came
3 amongst us, nor we never heard any thing about
it. This is acting in the Dark, and very diffe-
rent from the Conduct our Six Nations obferve
in the Sales of Land; on fuch Occafions they
give publick Notice, and invite all the Indians of
'their united Nations, and give them all a Share
⚫ of the Prefent they receive for their Lands.-This
is the Behaviour of the wife united Nations.
'But we find you are none of our Blood: You act
a dishonest Part, not only in this, but in other
• Matters: Your Ears are ever open to flanderous
Reports about our Brethren; you receive them
with as much Greedinefs as lewd Women receive
the Embraces of bad Men. And for all thefe
Reafons we charge you to remove inftantly; we
'don't give you the Liberty to think about it.
You are Women. Take the Advice of a wife
Man, and remove immediately. You may re-
turn to the other Side of Delaware where you
⚫ came from: But we do not know whether, con-
fidering how you have demean'd yourselves, you
will be permitted to live there; or whether you

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have not swallowed that Land down your Throats as well as the Land on this Side. We therefore affign you two Places to go, either to Wyomen or • Shamokin. You may go to either of thefe Places, • and then we shall have you more under our Eye, ⚫ and fhall fee how you behave. Don't deliberate; ⚫ but remove away, and take this Belt of Wampum.'

This being interpreted by Conrad Weifer into Englifb, and by Cornelius Spring into the Delaware Language, Canaletego taking a String of Wampum, added further.

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After our juft Reproof, and abfolute Order to depart from the Land, you are now to take • Notice of what we have further to fay to you. This String of Wampum ferves to forbid you, your Children and Grand-Children, to the latest Pofterity for ever, meddling in Land-Affairs; • neither you, nor any who fhall defcend from you, are ever hereafter to prefume to fell Land: • For which purpose, you are to preserve this String, in Memory of what your Uncles have this Day given you in Charge.-We have fome other Bufi• nefs to tranfact with our Brethren, and therefore < depart the Council, and confider what has been • faid to you.'

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Canaffatego then fpoke to the Governor and Council:

BRETHREN,

We called at our old Friend James Logan's, in our Way to this City, and to our Grief we ⚫ found him hid in the Bushes, and retired, thro' Infirmities, from publick Bufinefs. We prefs'd him to leave his Retirement, and prevailed with

him to affift once more on our Account at your Councils. We hope, notwithstanding his Age, and the Effects of a Fit of Sickness, which we understand

has