Then were read the feveral Conveyances, the Paragraph of the Letter wrote by the Chiefs of the Six Nations relating to the Delawares; the Letters of the Fork Indians to the Governor and Mr. Langborne, and a Draught of the Land; these were then delivered to Conrad Weifer, who was defired to interpret them to the Chiefs, when they should take this Affair into their Confideration. At a COUNCIL held July 10, 1742. PRESENT, The Honourable GEORGE THOMAS, Efq; Lieutenant-Governor. The Governor laid before the Board an Extract from the Treaty held here the 7th Instant with the Indians of the Six Nations, fo far as it related to the Inhabitants of Maryland; as alfo a Letter he had prepared for the Governor of Maryland upon that Subject; both of which being approved, were ordered to be transcribed fair, in order to be difpatch'd the following Morning. The Letter was as follows: SIR, Philadelphia, July 10, 1742. THE inclosed Extract of the Speech made by the Chiefs of the Six Nations, before a very numerous Audience, in this Place, with my Anfwer to it, is of fo great Importance to all his Majesty's Colonies in this Part of his Dominions, and to your Govern ment ment in particular, that I have employed a Special Meffenger to deliver it you. I hope you will enable me to fend them a fatisfactory Anfwer. It would be impertinent in me to fay more to one fo well informed as you are of thefe Nations, and of their abfolute Authority over all the Indians bordering upon us, or of the Advantages of maintaining a strict Friendship with them at all Times, but more efpecially at this critical Functure. I am, Yours, &c. An Account exhibited by Conrad Weifer of his Expences upon the Indians, and Indian Affairs, from February laft to July 1, 1742, amounting to 361. 18 s. 3 d. was laid before the Board, and examin'd, and allow'd to be a just and very moderate Account. And the Board taking into Confideration the many fignal Services performed by the faid Conrad Weifer to this Government, his Diligence and Labour in the Service thereof, and his Skill in the Indian Languages and Methods of Bufinefs, are of Opinion, that the faid Conrad should be allowed, as a Reward from the Province at this Time, the Sum of Thirty Pounds, at leaft, befides Payment of his faid Account. Ata COUNCIL held at the Great MeetingHoufe, July 10, P. M. 1742. PRESENT, The Honourable GEORGE THOMAS, Éfq; Lieutenant-Governor. And a great Number of the Inhabitants of Philadelphia. The Governor spoke to the Indians, as follows: BRETHREN, This Meeting will be fhort. It is in order to make you a Prefent from the Governor, the Council, the Affembly, and all our People. • William Penn was known to you to be a good and faithful Friend to all the Indians: He made a League of Friendship with you, by which we became one People. This League has often ⚫ fince been renew'd by friendly Treaties; and as · you have declared that the Friendship fhall always laft 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 Con • fideration 'fideration of the great Miferies and Diftreffes 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 Circumftances.? 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 Pensylvania, the following Goods, viz. Whereupon the Chiefs, and all the Indians, returned their folemn Thanks; and Canaffateego faid, They had no more to fay as to public Business at prefent; but they had fomewhat under Deliberation, which, when they had duly confidered, they would communicate.' At a COUNCIL held at the Proprietor's, July 12, 17421 J PRESENT, The Honourable GEORGE THOMAS, Esq; Lieutenant-Governor. Fames Logan, Clement Plumfted Thomas Lawrence, Abraham Taylor, Efqrs. Robert Strettell, Mr. Richard Peters. CANASSATE EGO, And fundry Chiefs of the SASSOONAN, and the Delawares. Pifquetoman, Cornelius Spring, Interpreters to the Fork-Indians. Nicholas Scull, CANASSATE EGO faid: • BRETHREN, the Governor and Council, The other Day you informed us of the Mifbehaviour of our Coufins the Delawares, with Refpect to their continuing to claim, and refufing 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 long and full Examination, ratified that Deed of their Ancestors, and given a fresh one under their Hands and Seals and then you • re |