The Honourable _G E O R G E T H O M A S_, Esq; Lieutenant-Governor.
_James Logan_, }
_Samuel Preston_, } Esqrs;
_Robert Strettell_, }
_Abraham Taylor_, }
The C H I E F S of the _Six Nations_.
_S A S S O O N A N_, and the _Delawares_.
_N U T I M U S_, and the _Fork-Indians_.
_C O N R A D W E I S E R_, Interpreter.
The Governor spoke to the Chiefs of the _Six Nations_, as follows:
'_B R E T H R E N_,
'The last Time the Chiefs of the _Six Nations_ were here, they
were informed, that your Cousins, a Branch of the _Delawares_,
gave this Province some Disturbance about the Lands the
Proprietor purchased from them, and for which their Ancestors
had received a valuable Consideration above _fifty-five_ Years
ago, as appears by a Deed now lying on the Table.--Sometime
after this, _Conrad Weiser_ delivered to your Brother _Thomas
Penn_ your Letter, wherein you request of him, and _James
Logan_, that they would not buy Land, &c.--This has been shewn
to them and interpreted; notwithstanding which they have
continued their former Disturbances, and have had the Insolence
to write Letters to some 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; these were then delivered to _Conrad Weiser_,
who was desired to interpret them to the Chiefs, when they should take
this Affair into their Consideration.
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At a C O U N C I L held _July_ 10, 1742.