Ri'.coRDS OF Dkeus i'or Wkst Augus'ja, Vikcima. L'.'!'.) 



I'lsq., Commissioner for the Colony of Virginia; Richard Peters and 

 James Tilghman, F^scjrs., for the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania ; 

 Ceorge Croghan, Daniel Claus, and Guy Johnson, Esqrs., Deputy In- 

 dian Agents, as well as many others of the whites, attracted by inter- 

 est or curiosity ; and on November 5, 1768, after full conference and 

 extended discussion, at least three grants by the Six Nations already 

 executed were delivered ; one to Thomas Penn and Richard Penn, 

 the [)roprietaries of Pennsylvania; one to William Trent, in trust for 

 the Indian Traders whose goods had been carried off by the Indians 

 from Pogstown (below Pittsburgh) in 1763, and one to Ceorge 

 Croghan, for himself absolutely. 



By the cession to the proi)rietaries of Pennsylvania, the Six Nations 

 granted a large tract of country lying within the general boundary of 

 Pennsylvania and contained within the following limits, to wit : 



"Beginning in the said Boundary Line, on the East side of the 

 East Branch of the River Sus(]uehanna, at a place called Owegy, and 

 running with the said Boundary Line down the said Branch on the 

 East side thereof, till it comes opposite the mouth of a Creek called 

 by the Indians Awandae, and across the River and up the said Creek 

 on the South side thereof, and along the Range of Hills called 



Burnett's Hills by the English, and by the Indians , on the 



north side of them, to the head of a Creek which runs into the West 

 Branch of Susquehanna, which Creek is by the Indians called Tiad- 

 aghton, and down the said Creek on the south side thereof, to the said 

 West Branch of Sustjuehanna ; then, crossing the said River and run- 

 ning up the same on the south side thereof, the several Courses 

 thereof, to the Fork of the same River, which lies nearest to a place 

 on the River Ohio [Allegheny] called Kittanning, and from the said 

 Fork, by a strait line to Kittanning aforesaid, and then down the said 

 River Ohio [Allegheny], by the several Courses thereof, to where the 

 western Bounds of the said Province of Pennsylvania crosses the same 

 River ; and then, with the said Western Bounds to the South Bound- 

 ary thereof; and with the south Boundary aforesaid, to the East side 

 of the Allegheny Hills, and with the same Hills, on the East side of 

 them, to the West Line of a Tract of Land purchased by the said 

 Proprietaries from the Six Nation Indians, and confirmed by their 

 Deed bearing date the twenty-third Day of October, one thousand 

 seven hundred and fifty-eight ; and then with the Northern Bounds of 

 that Tract to the River Suscpiehanna, and crossing the River Susque- 



