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pleted the fort and called it Fort Diuiuesne. Subsef[uently Trent 

 must have executed a sufficient conveyance to his beneficiaries for 

 their interests in this grant, for at a session of the Court for the Dis- 

 trict of West Augusta held on April 17, 1776, there were proved and 

 ordered to be recorded a " Deed of Lease and Release of Trust from 

 William Trent," to the many persons named, and a " Deed of Parti- 

 tion from and between the same Persons," showing how very many 

 individuals had by that time become interested in this celebrated 

 grant : Vol. I of these Annals, page 562. 



On November 4, 1768, the day after the above-mentioned grant to 

 William Trent, in trust, and the day before the delivery of the cession 

 to the proprietaries of Pennsylvania, there was made a grant to George 

 Croghan, which is presented here because of the many grants made 

 under it of lands lying on the south side of the Monongahela and 

 Ohio, extending southward to the neighborhood of the present Bridge- 

 ville, or beyond, which grants are recorded in the records to be 

 presented. 



Thk Six Nations to George Croghan. 



TO ALT. PEOPLE to whom these presents shall come. Greeting: 

 Know ye, that we, Abraham, a Mohawk chief; Sennghois, an Oneida 

 chief; Chenaugheata, an Onondaga chief; Tagaaia, a Cayuga chief, 

 and Gaustarax, a Seneca chief, chiefs and sachems of the Six United 

 Nations, and being and effectually representing all the tribes of the 

 Six United Nations, send greeting. 



WHEREAS, lohonerissa, Scaroyadia, Cosswentanica, chiefs or 

 sachems of the Six United Nations, did, by their deed duly executed 

 bearing date the 2nd day of August, 1749, for and in consideration of 

 the following goods and merchandise being paid and delivered to 

 them at a full council of the Six LTnited Nations, Delawares and 

 Shawanese, held at Logstown, on the river Ohio, on the 2nd of 

 August, 1749, that is to say : 240 strouds, 400 Duffield blankets, 460 

 pairs of half thick stockings, 200 shirts, 20 pieces of calico, 20 pieces 

 of callimancte, 20 pieces of embossed serge, fifty pounds of Vermil- 

 lion, 50 gross of gartering, 50 pieces of ribbon, 50 dozen of knives, 

 500 pounds of gunpowder, 1000 of bar lead, 3000 gun flints, 50 

 ])Ounds of brass kettles, 4 pounds of thread, 1000 needles, ten dozen 

 jews-harps. 20 dozen tobacco tongs, and 100 pounds of tobacco: 

 grant and sell unto George Croghan, of the Province of Pennsylvania, 

 F^lsquire, in fee, a certain tract or ])arcel of land, situate, lying and 



