has hurt his Conftitution, that he may yet continue a long Time to affift this Province with his Counfels. He is a wife Man, and a fast Friend to the Indians. And we defire, when his Soul goes to GOD, you may chufe in his Room juft fuch another Perfon, of the fame Prudence and Ability in counselling, and of the fame tender Difpofition and Affection for the Indians. In Teftimony of our Gratitude for all his Services, and because he was fo good as to leave his Country-Houfe, and follow us to Town, and be at "the Trouble, in this his advanced Age, to attend 'the Council, we present him with this Bundle of • Skins.'

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• BRETHREN,

It is always our Way, at the Conclufion of a Treaty, to defire you will ufe your Endeavours with the Traders, that they may fell their Goods cheaper, and give us a better Price for our Deer• Skins. Whenever any particular Sort of Indian Goods is fcarce, they conftantly make us pay the • dearer on that Account. We must now use the fame Argument with them: Our Deer are killed in fuch Quantities, and our Hunting-Countries ⚫ grown lefs every Day by the Settlement of white People, that Game is now difficult to find, and we must go a great Way in quest of it; they therefore ought to give us a better Price for our Skins; and we defire you would fpeak to them to do fo. We have been ftinted in the Article of Rum in Town. We defire you will open the Rum-Bottle, and give it to us in greater Abundance on the Road.'

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To inforce our Requeft, about the Indian Traders, we present you with this Bundle of Skins.

BRETHREN,

• When we first came to your Houfes, we found them clean and in Order; but we have ftaid fo long as to dirty them; which is to be imputed to our different Way of Living from the white People: And therefore, as we cannot but have • been disagreeable to you on this Account, we pre ⚫ fent you with fome Skins to make your Houses clean, and put them into the fame Condition they were in when we came amongst you.'

BRETHREN,

The Business the Five Nations tranfact with you is of great Confequence, and requires a skilful and ⚫ honest Person to go between us; one in whom both you and we can place a Confidence. We efteem ⚫our prefent, Interpreter to be fucha Perfon, equally faithful in the Interpretation of whatever is faid to him by either of us, equally allied to both; he is of our Nation, and a Member of our Council, as well as of yours. When we adopted him, we <divided him into two equal Parts: One we kept for ourselves, and one we left for you. He has had ⚫ a great deal of trouble with us, wore out his Shoes in our Meffages, and dirty'd his Clothes by being amongst us, fo that he is become as nafty as an • Indian.

In Return for thefe Services, we recommend ⚫ him to your Generofity; and on our own Behalf, we give him Five Skins to buy him Clothes and

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BRETHREN,

We have ftill one more Favour to ask. Our Treaty, and all we have to fay about publick Bu• finefs, is now over, and to-morrow we defign to leave you. We hope, as you have given us Plenty of good Provifion whilft in Town, that

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" you will continue your Goodness fo far as to fupply us with a little more to ferve us on the Road. • And we likewife defire you will provide us with • Waggons, to carry our Goods to the Place where they are to be conveyed by Water.'

To these feveral Points the Governor made the following Reply.

BRETHREN of the Six Nations,

The Judgment you have juft now pass'd on your Coufins the Delawares, confirms the high Opinion we have ever entertained of the Justice of 'the Six Nations. This Part of your Character, for which you are defervedly famed, made us wave doing ourselves Juftice, in order to give you another Opportunity of convincing the World of your inviolable Attachment to your Engagements. These unhappy People might have always liv'd eafy, having never receiv'd the least Injury from us; but we believe fome of our own People were bad enough to impofe on their Credulity, and engage them in these wrong Measures, which we wifh, for their Sakes, they had avoided.

'We hoped, from what we have constantly given in Charge to the Indian Traders, that they would ⚫ have adminiftred no just Cause of Complaint: If they do you Wrong, it is against our Inclinations, and contrary to our exprefs Directions. As you' have exhibited no particular Charge against them, 'we shall use our beft Endeavours to perfuade them 'to give you as much for your Skins as they can poffibly afford; and to take Care that their Goods which they give in Exchange for Skins, be of the beft Sort. We will likewife order you fome Rum to 'ferve you on your journey home, fince you defire it.

• We wish there had been more Room and bet'ter Houses provided for your Entertainment; but not expecting fo many of you, we did the best

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We entertain the fame Sentiments of the Abilities and Probity 'of the Interpreter as you have exprefs'd. We were induc'd at first to make use • of him in this important Truft, from his being ⚫ known to be agreeable to you, and one who had

lived amongft you for fome Years, in good Credit • and Esteem with all your Nations; and have ever • found him equally faithful to both. We are pleas'd • with the Notice you have taken of him, and think ⚫he richly deserves it at your Hands. We fall not be wanting to make him a fuitable Gratification, for the many good and faithful Services he • hath done this Government.

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• We have already given Orders for Waggons to carry your Goods, and for a Supply of Provifions to ferve you on the Road in your Return home, where we heartily with you may arrive in good Health.'

After the Governor had concluded, Mr. Logan return'd 'an Anfwer to that Part of Canaffatego's Speech which related to him, and faid, That not only upon the Account of his Lameness, of which the Indians themselves were Witneffes; but on Account of another Indifpofition, which about three Years fince had laid him under an Incapacity of expreffing himself with his former ufual • Freedom, he had been obliged to live retired in the Country. But that our firft Proprietor, the Honourable William Penn, who had ever been a Father and true Friend to all the Indians, having above forty Years fince recommended them to his particular Care, he had always, from his own • Inclination, as well as from that strict Charge, • endeavoured

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endeavoured to convince all the Indians, that he was their true Friend; and was now well pleafed, that after a Tract of fo many Years, they were not infenfible of it. He thanked them kindly for their Prefent, and heartily joined with them • in their Defires, that this Government may always be furnished with Perfons of equally good Inclinations, and not only with fuch, but also with better Abilities to ferve them.'

And then Canaffatego faid, he had forgot to mention, that Shickcalamy and Caxhayn had been employ'd on feveral Meffages to this Government, and defir'd they might be confider'd on that Account.

At a COUNCIL held the 12th of July, P. M. 1742. PRESENT,

The Honourable GEORGE THOMAS, Efq;

Lieutenant-Governor.

The Board taking into Confideration the Regulation of the neceffary Expences of the Indians travelling down hither, and returning and upon an Eftimate made by Conrad Weifer, amounting to about one hundred Pounds, it appearing that the faid Sum of 100l. will be neceffary to be advanced to Conrad Weifer to defray thofe Expences, Mr. Logan, on the Proprietaries Behalf, proposes to advance 40l. and the Treasurer declaring he had no publick Money in his Hands, and that if he had, he would not advance Money without the Affembly's Order; it is recommended to Mr. Preston and Mr. Lawrence, to confer with Mr. Kinfey, and know whether he, as Speaker of the Affembly,

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