240 Annals of thk Carnfcif. Musfim. 



hanna, to the Northern Boundary line of another Tract of Land jjur- 

 chased from the Indians by Deed bearing Date the twenty-second Day 

 of August, one thousand seven hundred and forty-nine ; and then, 

 with that Northern Boundary Line to the River Delaware, at the 

 North Side of the mouth of a Creek called Lechawacscin ; then up 

 the said River Delaware, on the West Side thereof, to the Intersection 

 of it by an East Line, to be drawn from Owegy aforesaid, to the said 

 Ki\er Delaware ; and then, with that East Line to the Beginning, at 

 Owegy aforesaid." 



The grant from which this quotation is made seems to have been 

 dated November 5, 1768 : See I Olden Time, p. 401 ; also, IX Col. 

 Records, ]). 554. But two other grants had already been executed, 

 the first being that to William Trent, in trust for the Indian traders, 

 dated November 3, 1768, here given in full, our copy having been 

 made from the dupicate original parchment deed now or lately hang- 

 ing in the State House at Philadelphia. 



TuF Six Nations to ^^'lLLlAM Trfnt, in Trust. 



']"( ) ALL PEOPLE To whom these Presents shall come, Greeting : 

 Know ye That We, Abraham, a Mohawk Chief; Sennghois, a Oneida 

 Chief; Saguarisera, a Tuscarora Chief; Chenaugheata, Chief of the 

 Onondaga Council ; Tagaaia a Cayuga Chief, &: Gaustarax a Seneca 

 Chief; Chiefs and Sachems of the Six United Nations, and being and 

 effectually representing all the 'I'ribes of the Six United Nations, send 

 Greeting : 



WHEREAS, Robert Callender, David Franks, Joseph Simon, Levy 

 Andrew Levy, Philip Boyle, John Baynton, Samuel Wharton, George 

 Morgan, Joseph Spear, Thomas Smallman, Samuel Wharton, Admin- 

 istrator of John Welch, deceased, Edmund Moran, Evan Shelby, 

 Samuel Postlethwait, John Gibson, Richard Winston, Dennis Crohon, 

 William Thompson, Abraham Mitchel, James Dundas, Thomas Dun- 

 das, and John Ormsby, in and by their several and respective letters 

 or Powers of Attorney duly signed, sealed, and delivered by them 

 and now produced, interpreted and explained to us, have constituted, 

 nominated and appointed William Trent, of the County of Cumber- 

 land and Province of Pennsylvania, Merchant, their lawful Attorney 

 and Agent to ask, Sollicit, demand and receive from the Sachems, 

 Councellors, and Warriors of the said Six United Nations, a Grant of 

 a Tract of Land as a Comijensation, Satisfaction, or Retribution for 



