Lt. Gov. It is very well, I expect you to Morrow to ratify the Articles, and take a Dinner with me.

Friday, August 5th, 1726.

Present as Before, And a Considerable Number of Gentlemen &c. Attending.

Lt. Gov. of the Massachusetts. The Articles of the Treaty shall be distinctly read, and faithfully Interpreted to you.

While the Articles were in Reading, Immediately after the Article respecting Trade, the Indians by their Speaker Loron, acquainted the Lieut. Governour that they had been told the Prices of Goods would be raised when the Ratification was over.

The Lieut Governour answered them, that they might be assured, that the Goods always were, and still should be, bought with ready Money, and that the Government would not make any new Advance on their goods, and for a Proof of it, they would always be sensible and find that the Government would supply them Cheaper than any other People whatsoever, That they are Acquainted with the Nature of Markets, that they are sometimes higher and sometimes lower.

After the Articles were read, and the Interpreters had finished, Loron made a second motion, and informed the Lieut. Governour, that it had been reported that the Articles of Peace which were delivered to him, and the other Delegates at Boston, were not of the same Purport with those they Deposited and left in the Hands of the Government, and therefore desired that an Exchange might be made of the Articles they carried with them to Penobscut, with those left in the Hands of the Government, in order to their being Enabled to confute such Reports: Which was readily granted them by the Lieut. Governour, to the apparent Satisfaction of the whole Tribe. The Articles being Interpreted to the Indians, the Lieut. Governour asked them whether they thoroughly understood them.

Indians. We perfectly understand them all.

Lt. Gov. It is Necessary to write the words of the Ratification before you Sign your Names.

Indians. May we not have a copy of the Conference.

Lt. Gov. You shall have a Copy of it, as soon as it can be prepared.

The Ratification of the Treaty which is endorsed on the Orig inal Articles was read over Distinctly and Interpreted to the Indians in the Words following, Viz.

We the Underwritten WENEMOUETT Chief Sachem & Sagamore of the Penobscutt Tribe, and Others the Chiefs, with the rest of the said Tribe now Convented having had the within Articles of Peace Distinctly and Deliberately Read over and Interpreted to us.

DO BY THESE PRESENTS in a Publick and Solemn manner, as well for Our Selves as for all the within mentioned Tribes, from whom we are Delegated and Fully Impowered, RATIFY 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, Lieut. Governour and Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New England, and His Majesty's Council of said Province. The Honorable JOHN WENTWORTH Esq, Lieut. Governor of His Majesty's Province of New-Hampshire, and several of His Majesty's Council of said Province, and Major PAUL MASCARENE, Delegated from His Majesty's 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.

Indians. We suppose the Governour intends to Ratify the Articles he Sign'd to us at the Treaty.

Lt. Gov. Yes I will Ratify them under my Hand and Seal when you have finished. Do you understand what has been Now Read, and Consent to it.

Indians. After some Consultation, We understand it well and Consent to it, and then WENEMOUETT the Chief Sachem with the aforenamed Chiefs and Others, set their Hands and Seals to the Ratification.

Saturday, August 6th, 1726.

Present as Before, And a Considerable Number of Gentlemen and Others Attending.

Lt. Gov of the Massachusetts. I am now come to Ratify and Confirm the Instrument which I gave to you at the Signing the Articles of Peace, I have already Endorsed the Ratification on that I keep by me, and if you will give me Yours, the Secretary will Endorse the same thereon, which was accordingly Done, and is in the words following, Viz.

By the Honourable WILLIAM DUMMER Esq:

Lieut. Governour and Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New England.

Whereas WENEMOUETT the Chief Sachem of Penobscut, with Others His Chiefs, and the rest of said Tribe, Convented at Casco-Bay the Fifth Day of August 1726. Having Solemnly and Publickly Ratified the Treaty of Submission made at Boston the Fifteenth Day of December last, and delivered the same to me, which I have accordingly Accepted. I do hereby Ratify and Confirm all the Articles in the within mentioned Instrument.

Given under my Hand and Seal at Arms at Falmouth in Casco-Bay, the Sixth 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. WILLIAM DUMMER,

By Command of His

Honour the Lieut.

Governour.

John Wainwright,

Clerk of the Council.

[L. S.]

The aforesaid Ratification was Signed in the Presence of a Considerable Number of Spectators, Gentlemen and Others, who Subscribed as Witnesses, and then Deliver'd to the Indians.

A Copy of the said Ratification was Endorsed on the Instrument Lieut. Governour Wentworth gave the Indian Delegates at the Signing the Treaty at Boston, and Publickly Executed by him in the Presence of the before mentioned Witnesses who also subscribed.

Lt. Gov. The Instrument that Major Mascarene gave you at the Signing the Treaty in Behalf of the Government of Nova Scotia or L'Acadie, will be Ratified and Confirmed to any persons you shall send on your behalf to the Governour at Annapolis-Royal.

In Behalf of the Government of the Massachusetts I shall make you some small Presents. I am very much Disappointed when I come to see the Things which I designed to make a Present of to you, for they are not so good as I expected, but soon after (it shall please GOD) I arrive at Boston, I shall see the Great Court, to whom I shall heartily recommend you as good. Friends, Confederates and Neighbours, acquainting them of your ready and chearful compliance with your Engagements in ratifying and confirming the Articles of Peace made at Boston, which doubtless will have a proper consideration, and therefore I shall be very glad then to see you the Chief Sachem WENE

MOUETT, with two or three of your Principal Men attending you at Boston.

Then His Honour Ordered the Presents to be delivered. And proceeded, There were two of your Young Men sent to Canada last Year, in the Service of this Province, I would see them, that I might make them a Consideration for their Trouble & Loss of Time in performing the Message, upon which only one of them, viz. Loron's Son appeared, the other the Sachem said was left at Penobscut, the Lieut. Governour taking two fine Firelocks in his Hand, presented one to him that was present, the other His Honour delivered to the Chief Sachem Wenemouett, desiring of him that it might be given to the other Young Man.

Lt. Gov. I design to Confer with you on Monday next to Consult the common Good, so that there remains nothing further at present but to Rejoyce with one another.

Loron. We make bold to mention to the Governour, one thing, that when we were at St. George's we desired a Vessel to bring us here, so as we are now short of Canoes, we desire the Governour would supply us with a Vessel to carry us back again.

Lt. Gov. I will take care that a small Vessel be provided to carry you back.

Indians. We are very thankful to the Governour. What place does your Honour appoint we should Rejoyce at.

Lt. Gov. Upon the Rising Ground before us at the Point. The Conference was concluded this Day with Publick Rejoycing accordingly.