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being on the southernly sicie of the river Monongehela : l^jMCHNNINd 

 at the mouth of a run nearly oiijiosite to Turtle Creek, and then down 

 the river Monongehela to its junction with the river Ohio, computed 

 to be ten miles ; then running down the eastern bank and sides of 

 and unto the said river Ohio to where Raccoon creek empties itself 

 into the said river ; thence up the said creek ten miles, and from 

 thence on a straight or direct line to the place of beginning on the 

 aforesaid river Monongehela, CONTAINING, by estimation, one 

 hundred thousand acres of land, be the same more or less. 



AND WHERI^AS, the said lohonerissa, Scaroyadia and Cosswen- 

 tanica, chiefs or sachems, as aforesaid, for the consideration herein- 

 after mentioned to them in full council, as aforesaid, paid and de- 

 livered, that is to say : 140 strouds, 240 Duffield blankets, 275 pair 

 of half thick stockings, 120 shirts, 12 pieces of calico, 12 pieces of 

 callimancoe, 12 pieces of embossed serge, 30 pounds of vermillion, 12 

 gross of gartering, 30 pieces of ribbon, 30 dozen knives, 300 ])Ounds 

 of gunpowder, 600 of bar lead, 1000 gun flints, 30 ])ounds of brass 

 kettles, 4 pounds of thread, 500 needles, six dozen of jews-harps, six 

 dozen tobacco tongs, and 50 pounds of tobacco : did, by one other 

 deed bearing date the same day and year last aforesaid, grant, bargain 

 and sell unto the said George Croghan, in fee, one other tract or par- 

 cel of land, situate, lying and being on the river Yoxhiogeni, includ- 

 ing the Indian village called the Seurchly ' old town ; the same tract 

 or ])arcel of land containing 15 miles in length, on the said river, and 

 ten miles in breadth, and including the lands on both sides of the said 

 river Yoxhiogeni, which 15 miles in length and ten miles in breadth, 

 he, the said George Croghan, has liberty to locate either upon or 

 down the said Yoxhiogeni, but nevertheless in such manner so as to 

 include and locate the said Indian village and land called the Seurchly ' 

 old town, which said tract or parcel of land contains, by estimation, 

 60,000 acres, be the same more or less. 



AND WHEREAS, the said lohonerissa, Scaroyadia and Cosswen- 

 tanica did, by one other deed, bearing date the day and year last 

 aforesaid, for the consideration herein mentioned to them in full 

 council paid and delivered, as aforesaid, that is to say : 96 strouds, 

 160 Duffield blankets, 184 pair of half thick stockings, 80 shirts, 8 

 })ieces of calico, 8 pieces of embossed serge, 20 pounds of vermillion, 

 20 gross of gartering, 20 pieces of ribbon, 20 dozen of knives, 200 



' Perhaps .Sewickley. 



