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TREAT Y,

Held at the Town of

Lancaster, in PENSYLVANIA, By the HONOURABLE the Lieutenant-Governor of the PROVINCE,

And the HONOURABLE the

Commiffioners for the PROVINCES

OF

VIRGINIA and Maryland,

WITH THE

INDIANS

OF THE

SIX NATIONS,

In June and July, 1744.

A Treaty with the INDIANS of the SIX NATIONS.

In the COURT-HOUSE in the Town of Lancaster, on Friday the Twentyfecond of June, 1744.

PRESENT,

The Honourable GEORGE THOMAS, Efq
Lieut. Governor of the Province of Penfylvania,
and Counties of Newcastle, Kent and Suffex, on
Delaware.

The Honble Thomas Lee, Efq;
Colonel William Beverly,

The Honble Edm. Jennings, Efq;

Philip Thomas, Elq;
Colonel Robert King,

Colonel Thomas Colville,

Commiffioners Sof Virginia.

Commiffioners

of Maryland.

The Deputies of the Onondagoes, Senecas, Cayogoes,

T

Oneidas and Tufcaroraes.

Conrad Weifer, Interpreter.

HE Governor and the Commiffioners took fome of the Indian Chiefs by the Hand, and after they had feated themfelves, the Governor bid them welcome into the Government; and there being Vine and Punch prepared for them, the Governor

Governor and the feveral Commiffioners drank
Health to the Six Nations; and Canaffateego,
Tachanoontia, and fome other Chiefs, returned the
Compliments, drinking the Healths of
Affaragoa, and the Governor of Maryland.

Onas, †

After they were all ferved with Wine, Punch, Pipes and Tobacco, the Governor told the Indians, that as it was cuftomary, and indeed neceffary, they fhould have fome Time to reft after fo long a Journey, and as he thought three Days would be no more than fufficient for that Purpofe, he proposed to speak to them on Monday next; after which, the honourable Commiffioners would take their own Time to deliver what they had to say.

CANASSATE EGO answered the Governor : We thank you for giving us Time to reft; we are come to you, and shall leave it intirely to you to appoint the Time when we fhall meet you again. We likewife leave it to the Governor of Maryland, by whose Invitation we came here, to appoint a Time when he will please to mention the Reason of his inviting us. As to our Brother Alfaragoa, we have at this prefent Time nothing to say to him; not but we have a great deal to fay to Affaragoa, which must be faid at one Time or another; but not being fatisfied whether he or we fhould begin firft, we shall leave it wholly to our Brother Onas to adjust this between us, and to fay which shall begin first.

*Onas, the Governor of Penfylvania.

† Alfaragoa, the Governor of Virginia,

In the COURT-HOUSE at Lancaster, June 25, 1744. A. M.

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The Honourable the Commiffioners of Virginia.\ The Honourable the Commiffioners of Maryland." The Deputies of the Six Nations.

Conrad Weifer, Interpreter.

The GOVERNOR fpoke as follows:

"Honourable Gentlemen, Commiffioners for the Governments of Virginia and Maryland, and Brethren, Sachims, or Chiefs of the Indians of the Six Nations;

Ta Treaty, held by me two Years ago, in A Behalf of the Government of Penfylvania, with a Number of the Chiefs of the Indians of the Six Nations, I was defired by them to write to the Governor of Maryland concerning fome Lands in the back Parts of that Province, which they claim' a Right to from their Conquefts over the ancient Poffeffors, and which have been fettled by fome of the Inhabitants of that Government, without their Confent, or any Purchase made from them. It was at that Time understood that the Claim was upon Maryland only; but it has fince appeared, by fome Letters formerly wrote by Mr. Prefident LaVOL. II.

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