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STEAM ENGINES IN AND NEAR PITTSBURG.-M. Samu el Church, has just called and furnished us with a list of the number of steam engines now in operation in this city and its immediate vicinity; the power of each engine, the number of hands employed, and the amount of coal consumed monthly. Mr. Church has, himself, been at the trouble and expense of having this statement made out-it is entirely satisfactory, so far as it goes, but there are still many in the county, not embraced in this list. We hope to receive a list of these also, through the kindness of the manufacturers or owners.

The number of engines, embraced in Mr. Church's list, is eighty-nine-the number of hands employed, 2111-the monthly consumption of coal, 154,250 bushels. We will publish this statement next week.

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Philadelphia, Nov. 2d, 1853. Dear Sirs-My duties at West Point leave me but a few days to remain in Philadelphia, and my engage ments here are so numerous, as to put it entirely out of my power to accept the very kind invitation of my bro. ther Artists, communicated to me by you in so flattering a manner.

I trust I shall have many opportunities of renewing that intercourse with my early friends, among you, which I have never ceased to remember with unmingled plea sure, and of becoming known to the many who have distinguished themselves, and done honor to our coun. try, by the successful cultivation of the Fine Arts, during my long absence.

Accept, gentlemen, my warm thanks for your kindness, and believe me to be, With great regard, Your obedient servant, C. R. LESLIE. To Thos. Sully, Wm. Strickland, C. G. Childs, J. B. Longacre, and Wm. E. Tucker, Esq's.

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MR. LESLIE.

The following correspondence will show that our citizens, and especially the artists, are not insensible to the character and worth of Mr. Leslie. The tribute to this distinguished gentleman, as it was meet it should, emanated directly from those, who, like himself, have given most of their days in honoring and advancing the fine arts,Commercial Herald.

Philadelphia, Nov. 1st, 1833. Dear Sir-The undersigned, a committee appointed by the Artists of Philadelphia, to welcome your return among them, after an absence of twenty-two years, respectfully invite you to fix a day to partake of a dinner with them.

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Extract of a letter from M. Boucher, an eminent Silk Merchant at Paris, to Mr. John D'Homergue, of this city, dated 12th August, 1833.

"The minister of Commerce has granted to me what the American Congress has refused to the venerable and patriotic Peter S. Du Ponceau, to wit, the estab lishment of a special school, for instruction in the silk business, from the culture of the mulberry tree, to the throwing and twisting of the raw material, inclusive, I have been directed to submit a plan for the organization of that school in its various branches. It is to be es tablished in one of the southern cities, which I shall point out.

"Your specimen of Bank paper with engraved Vig. We have it expressly in charge, in bidding you wel-nettes, has been presented to the Minister of Commerce, come to this City, to assure you of our warm attachment as a product of your new industry. We congratulate for your person and character, and of our exultation at you upon it,"

REGISTER OF PENNSYLVANIA.

DEVOTED TO THE PRESERVATION OF EVERY KIND OF USEFUL INFORMATION RESPECTING THE STATE.

EDITED BY SAMUEL HAZARD.

VOI.. XIII.-NO. 20. PHILADELPHIA, NOVEMBER 16, 1833. NO. 307

LAND TITLES.

(Continued from page 302.)

newed their complaints. The French at Montreal were likewise endeavoring to gain them over to their interest, and it was seen both by the assembly and governor, that it was but just and reasonable, and that it concerned the peace of the country, that the Indians should be made easy respecting their lands, and their complaints removed. The state of affairs gave rise to the treaty of 1732, shortly after the arrival of Thomas Penn, who was present at it. See votes of assembly, vol. 3, page 158.

At the treaty at Philadelphia, in 1728, Sassoonan, addressing himself to Mr. James Logan, the proprietary secretary, and principal commissioner for land affairs, said, 'That he was grown old, and was troubled to see the Christians settle on lands that the Indians had never been paid for; they had settled on his lands, for which he had never received any thing; that he was now an old man, and must soon die; that his children Previous, however, to this treaty, there appears to may wonder to see all their father's lands gone from have been a release, but not recorded, from sundry Inthem without his receiving any thing for them; that the dians, for all the land on both sides of the Brandywine Christians made their settlements very near them, and creek, from the mouth thereof, where it enters the rithey would have no place left of their own to live on; that ver Delaware, up to a certain rock in the said creek, this might occasion a difference between their children near the upper line of Abraham Marshal's land. It is hereafter, and he would willingly prevent any misunder-unimportant to inquire at what point this purchase endstanding that might happen."

Mr. Logan, with the leave of the governor, answered, "That he was no otherwise concerned in the lands of the province, than as he was entrusted with other commissioners, by the proprietor, to manage his affairs of property in his absence; that William Penn had made il a rule, never to suffer any lands to be settled by his people, till they were first purchased of the Indians, that his commissioners had followed the same rule, and how little reason there was for any complaint against him or the commissioners, he would make appear. He then proceeded to relate to them the circumstances connected with the release of 1718, for the lands from Duck Creek to near the forks of Delaware, and that the Indians were then entirely satisfied with it; and the instrument of release was then read to them.

Sassoonan and Opekasset, both acknowledged this deed to be true, and that they had been paid for all the lands therein mentioned; but Sassoonan said, the lands beyond these bounds had never been paid for; that these reached no farther than a few miles beyond Oley, but that their lands in Tulpyhockin, were seated by the Chris

tians.

ed. It could have been intended merely to extinguish some claims, probably not well founded; and the same land was included in the release of 1718. This release is dated, May 31st, 1726.

September 7th, 1732, Sassoonan alias Allummapis, sachem of the Schuylkill Indians, Elalupis, Ohupamen, Pesquetomen, Mayemo, Partridge, Tepakoaset, alas Joe, grant all those tracts of land or lands, lying on or near the river Schuylkill, or any of the branches, streams, fountains, or springs thereof, eastward or westward, and all the lands lying in or near any swamps, marshes, fens, or meadows, the waters or streams of which flow into or towards the river Schuylkill, situate, lying, and being between those hills called Lechay hills, and those called Kekachtanemin hills, which cross the said river Schuylkill, about thirty miles above the said Lechay hills, and all land whatsoever lying within the said bounds, and between the branches of Delaware river on the eastern side of the said land, and the branches or streams running into the river Susquehanna on the western side of the said land. That is to say, all those lands situate, lying, and being on the said river Schuyl

kill, and the branches thereof, between the mountains Mr. Logan answered, that he understood, at the time called Lechay to the south, and the hills or mountains that deed was drawn, and ever since, that the Lechay called Kekachtanemin on the north, and between the hills or mountains, stretched away a little from below branches of the Delaware river on the east, and the wa Lechay, or the forks of Delaware, to those hilis on Susters falling into the Susquehanna river on the west. quehanna, that lie about ten miles above Pexton; Mr. Farmer said those hills passed from Lechay, a few miles above Oley, and reached no further, and that Talpyhockin lands lay beyond them.

Whether, continued Mr Logan, those lands of Tulpyhockin were within or without the bounds mentioned in the deeds, he well knew that the Indians, some few years since, were seated on them, and that he, with the other commissioners, would never consent that any settlement should be made on lands where the Indians were seated; that these lands were settled wholly against their minds, and even without their knowledge; but he desired of the Indians, that though these people had scated themselves on the Talpyhockin lands without the commissioners, leave or consent, yet that they would not offer them any violence, or injure them, but wait till such time as that the matter could be adjusted."

In this the Indians acquiesced, and having waited some time without receiving any satisfaction for their land, and the encroachments still increasing, they re

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Ratified by Lingohonoa, a Schuylkill Indian, who was not present at signing the foregoing deed, 12.h July, 1742.

Confirmed by deed of release, 20th of August, 1733, which is in fact a release for the consideration of said lands, received by them. This release is also confirmed by Lingahonoa, 12th July, 1742, acknowledging that he had received his portion of the consideration.

These deeds and releases have never been recorded. The lands at Tulpehocken were quieted by this deed; but as it embraced none of the lands on the Delaware, or branches leading into it, the discontent of the Indians still continued with regard to the settlements at the Minissinks, near forty miles above the Lechay hills, which was the northern boundary according to the deed of 1718. Although considerable obscurity rests upon the deed of 1686, yet presuming its existence, the purchase had never been walked out. And if any reliance can be placed in the authenticity of a letter from James Logan, dated 20th November, 1727, and printed a

taramin hills Signed by 23 Indian chiefs of the Onondago, Seneca, Oneida, and Tuscarora nations, recorded in Book C. vol. 1, page 277, May 7th, 1741.

What is remarkable at this period, is, that the Indian chiefs, on their return, staid several days with Conrad Weiser, at Tulpehocken, and there executed the fol lowing deed dated October 25th, 1736, which is proved and recorded in Book C. vol. 2, page 350, May 22d, 1741.

London in the year 1759, and said to have been commentasachta, and by the Delaware Indians, the Kekachpared with the original then in being, any claim under the deed of 1686, would appear to have been abandoned. The letter is in these words, "Friend Thomas Watson, this morning I wrote to thee by Joe Taylor, concerning warrants that may be offered thee to be laid out on the Minissink lands, and was then of opinion that the bearer hereof, Joseph Wheeler, proposed to lay his there. Having since seen him, he tells me he has no such thought, but would have it laid three or four miles above Durham, on a spot of pretty good land there amongst the hills, and I think at some distance from the river, proposing, as he says, to live there him self with his kinsman, who was here with him; pray take the first opportunity to mention it to I. Langhorne, for if he has no considerable objection to it, (that is, if he has laid no right on it,) I cannot see that we should make any other than that it is no purchased of the Indians, which is so material an one, that without their previous engagement to part with it very reasonably, it cannot be surveyed there. But of this,they themselves, I mean Joseph Wheeler, &c. propose to take care. This is what offers on this head, from thy loving friend, James Logan." The forks of Delaware were, notwithstanding, settled; and to this, among other causes, was attributed by the writers of the day, the alienation of the Delawares and the Shawanese, from the British interests.

We, the chiefs of the Six Nations of Indians, the Onondagoes, Isanundowans, or Sennekas, Cayoogoes, Oneydas, l'uscaroroes, (in behalf also of the Canyingoes, or Mohacks,) who have 1.tely, at Philadelphia, by our deed in writing, dated the 11th day of this instant, Oc tober, released to John Penn, 1homas Penn, and Richard Penn, proprietors of Pennsylvania, and to their heirs and successors, all our right, claim, and pretensions to all the lands on both sides of the river Susque hanna, from the mouth thereof as far northward, or up the said river as that ridge of hills called the Tyoninhasachita, or endless mountains, westward to the setting of the sun, and eastward to the farthest springs of the waters running into the said river, do hereby further declare, that our true intent and meaning by the said writing, was and is to release, and we do hereby more expressly release to the said proprietors, &c. all the lands lying within the bounds and limits of the governAfter several ineffectual attempts to compose the ment of Pennsylvania, beginning eastward on the river clamors of the Delawares, it is said the proprietor com- Delaware, as far northward as the said ridge, or chain plained of them to the Five Nations. In 1736, the de- of endless mountains, as they cross the country of Pennputies of the Five Nations arrived, and a treaty was sylvania, from the eastward to the west; and they fur held with them, at which Conrad Weiser was an import-ther engage, never to sell any of their lands to ant agent. The deed of 1736 is as follows:

any but

the proprietors, or children of William Penn.
There is an indorsement of ratification on this deed,
dated 9th of July, 1754, signed by nine Indians.

But notwiths'anding this latter deed, it was earnestly contended by those who were unfriendly to the proprie tary proceedings, and probably from an apprehension or foresight of the disasters which ensued, that the right of the Five Nations lay only on the waters which run into the Susquehanna; and as they claimed no lands on the Delaware, they could by that instrument convey none. However this fact may have been, we find about eighteen months afterwards, the proprietors procured a release from the Delawares, for at least part of these lands, or a confirmation of the supposed deed of 1686, or the walking purchase. This singular release is in the following words:

October 11th, 1736 Whereas the late proprietary of the province of Pennsylvania, William Penn, Esq. soon after his first arrival in the said province, took measures to have the river Susquehanna, with all the lands lying on both sides of the same, purchased for him and his heirs, of those Indians of the Five Nations inhabiting in the province of New York, who claimed the property thereof, and accordingly did purchase them of Col. Thomas Dungan, formerly governor of New York, and pay for the same; notwithstanding which, the Indians of the Five Nations aforesaid, have continued to claim a right in and to the said river and lands, nor have those claims been hitherto adjusted; whereupon the said sachems or chiefs, having, with all the others of the said nations, met the last summer at their great council, held in the country of the said On- August 25th, 1787. We, Teshakomen, alias Tishe. ondagoes, did resolve and conclude that a final period kunk, and Nootamis, alias Nutimus, two of the sache and conclusion should be put to all disputes that might mas, or chiefs of the Delaware Indians, having almost possibly arise on that occasion, and having appointed three years ago, at Durham, begun a treaty with our the aforesaid sachems or chiefs, as plenipotentiaries of honorable brethren, John and Thomas Penn, and from all those nations to repair to Philadelphia, in order to thence another meeting was appointed to be at Penns confirm the several treaties of peace which have hither bury the next spring following, to which we repaired, to been concluded between them, and the said province, with Lappawinzoe, and several others of the Delaware and also to settle and adjust all demands and claims that Indians, at which treaty several deeds were produced, have been heretofore made, or hereafter may be made, and shewed to us by our said brethren, concerning se touching or concerning the aforesaid river Susquehan- veral tracts of land, which our forefathers had more than na, and the lands lying on both sides thereof; and the fifty years ago, bargained and sold unto our good friend said sachems or chiefs of the Five Nations aforesaid, and brother William Penn, the father of the said John having for themselves, and on behalf of the said Na- and Thomas Penn, and in particular, one deed from tions, renewed and ratified the treaties of friendship Maykeerick kisho, Sayhoppy and Taughhaughsey, the and peace subsisting between them and the said pro- chiefs or kings of the northern Indians on Delaware, vince, did afterwards proceed to treat and agree with who for, &c. did grant, &c. all those lands lying and the honorable the proprietors thereof, about the said being in the province of Pennsylvania, beginning upon river and lands. Now know ye, &c.- grant, &c. to a line formerly laid out from a corner spruce tree by John Penn, Thomas Penn, and Richard Penn, their the river Delaware, (Makeerikkitton,) and from thence heirs, successors and assigns, all the said river Susque. running along the ledge or foot of the mountains, westhanna, with the lands lying on both sides thereof, to ex-northwest to a corner white oak. marked with the letter tend eastward as far as the heads of the branches or springs which run into the said Susquehanna, and all the lands lying on the west side of the said river, to the setting of the sun, and to extend from the mouth of the said river, northward, up the same to the hills or mountains called in the language of the said nations Taya

P. standing by the Indian path that leadeth to an Indian town called Playwickey, and from thence +xtending westward to Neshameny creek, from which sa'd line, the said tract or tracts thereby granted, doth extend itself back into the woods, as far as a man can go in one day and an half, and bounded on the westerly side with

the creek called Neshamony, or the most westerly westerly branch thereof, and from thence by a line to the utmost extent of the said one day and an half's journey; and from theuce

consideration about fifty-five years ago, (alluding to the deed of 1686, confirmed by the deed of 1737.)-That they continued their former disturbances, and had the insolence to write letters to some of the magistrates of to the aforesaid river Delaware, and from this government, wherein they had abused the worthy thence down the several cour-es of the said river to the proprietaries, and treated them with the utmost rudefirst mentioned spruce tree, &c. But some of our old ness and ill manners; that being loth, out of regard to men being absent, we requested more time to consult the Six Nations, to punish the the Delawares as they with our people, which request being granted, we have, deserved, he had sent two messages to inform them after more than two years, from the treaty at Pennsbu. the Six Nation deputies were expected here, and ry, now come to Philadelphia, together with our chief should be acquainted with their behaviour. That as sachem, Monockykichan, and several of our old men. the Six Nations, on all occasions, apply to this governThey then acknowledge that they were satisfied that ment to remove all white people that are settled on the above described tract was granted by the persons lands before they are purchased from them, and as the above mentioned, and agree to release to the proprie. government use their endeavours to turn such people tors all right to that tract, and desire it may be walked, off, so now he expects from them that they will cause travelled, or gone over by persons appointed for that these Indians to remove from the lands in the forks of purpose. (Signed,) Manocky kichon, Lappawinzoe, Delaware, and not give any further disturbance to the Teshacomin, Nootamis.—And witnessed by twelve oth-persons who are now in possession. er Indians, in token of full and free consent, besides other witnesses. Recorded May 8th, 1741, in book G vol. 1, page 282.

The deeds and letters were then read,and the draught exhibited.

Canassutego, in the name of the deputies, told the The walk was accordingly made; but it tended only governor, "That they saw the Delawares had been an to increase the dissatisfaction of the Indians. In giving unruly people, and were altogether in the wrong; that this summary of the causes and effects of the Indian they had concluded to remove them, and oblige them treaties, it is not designed, nor is it calculated, to en to go over the river Delaware, and quit all claim to croach on the province of history, which embraces a any lands on this side for the future, since they had rebroader ground, but merely to connect them together, ceived pay for them, and t is gone through their guts and shew how intimately they depend on each other. long ago."-Then addressing himself to the Delawares. Nor will it escape the observation of the reader, how in a violent and singular strain of invective, he said, materially the frequent recurrence to, and confirmation"They deserved to be taken by the hair of the head, of, Col. Dongan's deed, hears upon the deed of the 11th July, 1754, from the Indians to Connecticut claimants, whether that deed were real or fictitious.

and shaked severely, till they recovered their senses, and became sober; and he had seen with his eyes a deed signed by nine of their ancestors about fifty years ago, for this very land, (1686,) and a release signed not This walk extended, it is said, about thirty miles be- many years since, (1757,) by some of themselves, and yond the Lehigh hills, over the Kittatinny mountain; chiefs, yet living, (Sassoonan and Nutimus were pre. and a draught of it was made by Surveyor General East sent,) to the number of fifteen and upwards; "but how burn,including the best of the lands in the forks of De come you, continued he to the Delawares, to take upon laware, and the Minissinks. The walkers were expert, you to sell lands at all? We conquered you; we made and the Indians who could not keep up with them, women of you; you know you are women, and can no complained that they ran; and moreover it would ap-more sell land than women; nor is it fit you should have pear that their expectation was that the walk was to the power of selling lands, since you would abuse it, be made up the river, by its courses. It is not intended This land that you claim is gone through your guts; to enter further into the controversy than to exhibit the you have been furnished with clothes, meat, and drink, general grounds which are said to have estranged the by the goods paid you for it, and now you want it again Delawares from our interest, and drove them into that of like children as you are. But what makes you sell the French, who were always ready, in those times, to lands in the dark? Did you ever tell us that you had increase their diss tisfaction with the English. Nutimus sold this land? Did we ever receive any part, even the and others, who signed the release of 1737, were not value of a pipe shank, from you for it? You have told willing to quit the lands, nor give quiet possession to us a blind story, that you sent a messenger to us, to inthe people who came to take up the lands and settle inform us of the sale, but he never came among us, nor the forks. They remonstrated freely, and declared we ever heard any thing about it. This is acting in the their resolution of maintaining possession by force of dark, and very different from the conduct our Six Naarms. In the year 1741, therefore, a message was sent tions observe in the sales of land. On such occasions to the Six Nations, who, it was well known, had great they give public notice, and invite all the Indians of their authority over the Delawares, to press them to come united nations and, give them all a share of the present down and force the Delawares to quit the forks. They they receive for their lands. This is the behavior of accordingly came in the summer of 1742,to the number the wise united nations. But we find you are none of of two hundred and thirty. Governor Thomas, in his our blood; you act a dishonest part not only in this, but message to the assembly of the 24th July, in that year, in other matters; your ears are ever open to slanderous among other things, tells them, "That their coming reports about your brethren. For all these reasons we down was not only necessary for the present peace of the charge you to remove instantly; we don't give you liberty province, in regard to some Indians who had threaten to think about it. You are women. Take the advice ed to maintain by force their possession of lands which of a wise man, and remove instantly. You may return had been long ago purchased of them,and since convey to the other side of Delaware where you came from; ed by the proprietaries to some of our own inhabitants: but we do not know whether, considering how you but for its future security, like wise, in case of a rupture have demeaned yourselves, you will be permitted to with the French, who will leave no methods unessayed live there, or whether you have not swallowed that land to corrupt their fidelity, and to persuade them to turn down your throats, as well as the land on this side. We their armis against us. Votes of assembly, vol. 5, page therefore assign you two places to go to, either to Wy omen or Shamokin. You may go to either of these places, and then we shall have you more under our eye, and shall see how you behave. Don't deliberate, but remove awry, and take this belt of wampum." He then forbid them ever to intermiddle in land affairs, or ever hereafter pretend to sell any land, and commanded

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At this treaty, at Philadelphia, the governor informed the deputies of the conduct of their cousins, a branch of the Delawares, who gave the province some disturbance about the lands the proprietors purchased of them, and for which their ancestors had received a valuable

them, as he had something to transact with the English, immediately to depart the council.

with all their effects, to prevent the sad consequences which will otherwise ensue."

The governor acknowledges, in answer, That the people's settling on Juniata was contrary to the engagements of this government to the Indians; that he had received no orders in favour of them; that they had no countenance from the government, that no endeavours should be wanting on his part to bring the offenders to justice, and to prevent all future causes of complaint. Nothing else was done at this meeting, and the Senecas departed; but on their return they met the other depu

The Delawares dared not disobey this peremptory command. They immediately left the council, and soon after removed from the forks; some,it is said, went to Wyoming and Shanwkin, and some to the Ohio. Thus strangely was terminated the purchase of 1686admitting the deed to have once existed. But even at this treaty with the Six Nations,it was not admitted that the proprietary right extended beyond the Kitt chtinny hills; and the deputies complained that they were not well used with respect to the land still unsold by them "ties; and after considerable deliberation, and notwith"Your people, (they said,) daily settle on these lands, standing the opposition of Conrad Weiser,they all came and spoil our Hunting. We must insist on your remov. to Philadelphia, accompanied by some Mohickans,Tuteing them, as you know they have no right to settle to the|las, Delawares, and Nanticokes, in number two hundred northward of the Kittochtinny hills. In particular we renew our complaints against some people who are set tled on Juniata,a branch of Susquehanna, and all along the banks of that river as far as Muhaniay, and desire they may forthwith be made to go off the land, for they do great damage to our cousins the Delawares." With respect to the people settled at Juniata, the Governor replied, "that some magistrates were sent expressly to remove them, and he thought no persons would presume to stay after that." Here they interrupted the Governor, and said, "These persons who were sent do not do their duty; so far from removing the people, they made surveys for themselves, and they are in league with the trespas-ers; we desire more effectual methods may be used, and honester men employed," which th Governor promised should be done But we shall have occasion again to recur to this point. It is necessary only to add, at this time, the strong expressions of the speaker to the Governor-"We have given the river Juniata for a hunting place to our cousins, the Delaware Indians, and our brethren the Shawnese, and we ourselves hunt there sometimes. We therefore de sire you will immediately by force remove all those that live on the river Juniata. And what less could be demanded after the expulsion of the Delawares from the Forks?

Soon after this it appeared that the Shawnese were endeavouring to draw the Delawares from Shamokin to the Ohio, and that there were some heart-burnings between the Delawares and the Six Nations, and that the former only wanted a favourable opportunity to throw off the yoke, which they afterwards did, and to revenge the insults that had been offered to them at Philadel phia, in 1742. See votes of assembly, vol. 3, p. 555. We shall now proceed to the causes and circumstan. ces which produced the treaty and purchases of 1749.

and eighty, about the 14th of August, 1749. Canassatego was again the speaker. They renewed the com plaints about the settlements on the unpurchased lands; that by treaties all white people were to have been hindered from settling the lands not purchased of them; and if they did, the government engaged to remove them when discovered; but since it might be attended with a great deal of trouble, and having observed the people's settlements, they were willing to give up the lands on the east side of Susquehanna, from the blue hills to where Thomas Magee, the Indian trader lived, and leave it to the government to assign the worth of But as to the hunting grounds of their cousins the Nanticokes, and other Indians, living on the waters of Juniata, they must use more vigorous measures, and forcibly remove them.

them.

On consultation, and their agreement to extend the purchase, so as to carry its breadth to the Delaware, the following deed was executed on the 22d day of August, 1749.

We Canasatago, Sataganachly, Kanalshyiacayon, and Canechwadeeron, sachems or chiefs of the Indian na tion called the Onontagers. Cayanockea, Kanatsany. Agash Tass, Caruchianachaqui, sachems or chiefs of the Indian nation called the Sinickers. Peter Ontachsax,and Christian Diaryhogon, sachems or chiefs of the Indian nation called the Mohocks, Saristagnoah, Watshatuhon and Anuchnaxqua, sachems or chiefs of the Indian nation called the Oneyders.

Tatis Tawis, Kachnoaraaseha, and Takachquontas, sachems or chiefs of the Indian nation called the Cayiukers. Tyierox, Balichwanonachshy, sachems or chiefs of the Indian nation called the Cachnaora-katak-ke, sachems or chiefs of the Indian Tuscorrorow. Iachnechdorus, Sagoguchiathon, and nation called the Shomoken Indians. Nutimus and Qualpaghach, sachems or chiefs of the Indian nation called the Delawares; and Bachsinosa, sachem or chief of the Indian nation called the Shawanes, in consideration of £500, grant, sell, &c. all that tract or parcel of

A meeting of the deputies from each of the Six Nations, had been appointed, by the grand council at Onondago, to go to Philadelphia, on business of impor-land lying and being within the following limits and tance. The Senecas first arrived there, "One of the bounds, and thus described. Beginning at the hills or most considerable points," (said the speaker to the go- mountains called in the language of the Five Nation vernor,)"which induced the council to send deputies Indians Tyanuntasachta, or endless hills, and by the at this time, was, that they had heard the white people Delaware Indians Kekactany hills, on the east side of had begun to settle on their side the blue mountains the river Susquehanna, being in the north west line or And we the deputies of the Senecas, staying so long at boundary of the tract of land formerly purchased by Wyomen, had an opportunity of inquiring into the truth the said proprietaries from the said Indian nations, by of this information, and to our surprise found the story their deed of the 11th of October, 1736; and from confirmed, with this addition, that even this spring, thence running up the said river by the several courses since the governor's arrival, numbers of families were thereof, to the first or nearest mountain to the north side beginning to make settlements. As our boundaries are or mouth of the creek called in the language of the said so well known, and so remarkably distinguished by a Five Nation Indians, Cantaguy, and in the language of range of high mountains, we could not suppose this the Delaware Indians Maghonioy, and from thence ex could be done by mistake, but either it must be done tending by a direct or straight line to be run from the wickedly by bad people, without the knowledge of the said mountain on the north side of the said creek to the governor, or that the new governor has brought some main branch of Delaware river, at the north side of the instructions from the king, or the proprietaries relating mouth of the creek called Lechawachsein, and from to this affair, whereby we are like to be much hurt. thence to return across Lechawachsein creek aforesaid, The governor will be pleased to tell us, whether he has down to the river Delaware by the several courses brought any orders from the king or the proprietaries thereof to the Kekachtany hills aforesaid, and from for these people to settle on our lands; and if not, we thence by the range of said hills to the place of beginearnestly des re they may be made to remove instantlyning, as more fully appears by a map annexed; and also

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