The Treaty Held with the Indians of the Six Nations at Philadelphia, in July 1742 - To which is Prefix'd an Account of the first Confederacy - of the Six Nations, their present Tributaries, Dependents, - and Allies by Various
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of the Magistrates of this Government, wherein they have abused your
good Brethren our worthy Proprietaries, and treated them with the utmost Rudeness and Ill-Manners. Being loth, from our Regard to you, to punish them as they deserve, I sent two Messengers to inform them that you were expected here, and should be acquainted with their Behaviour.--As you, on all Occasions, apply to us to remove all white People that are settled on Lands before they are purchased from you, and we do our Endeavours to turn such People off; we now expect from you, that you will cause these _Indians_ to remove from the Lands in the Forks of _Delaware_, and not give any further Disturbance to the Persons who are now in Possession.' _To inforce this we lay down a String of_ Wampum. Then were read the several 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. _Langhorne_, and a Draught of the Land; and then delivered to _Conrad Weiser_, who was desired to interpret them to the Chiefs when they should take this Affair into their Consideration. * * * * * At a COUNCIL held _July_ 10, 1742. PRESENT, The Hon'ble GEORGE THOMAS Esq; Lieut. Governor. _James Logan_, _Samuel Preston_, } |
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