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ened t^ie hands of the magistrates, he hypocriticalhr 

 caused his proclamations to be read in the churches and 

 religiou'5 meetings, against the very disorders which he.' 

 himself committed." 



"i^e permitted French papists from Canada to 

 trade with the Indians, and seduce them from th& 

 English interest.^'* 



Having presented the reader a historical brief of his 

 moral and political character, an account of his last 

 journey, as laid before the Board in council, the 22d 

 July, 1707, is given in extenso, in these words: "The 

 Governor, with Messrs. John French, Wm. Tonge, 

 Mitchel Bezaillion, Gray, and four servants, set out from 

 New Castle the 27th of June, and the next morning 

 arrived at Octoraro, where the Governor was presented 

 with some skins by the Indians, and the same liight we 

 arrived at Pequehan, " at the mouth of Pequae creek" 

 being received at Martines,! by Pessah, "the chief 

 of the Shawanoes," and some Indian chiefs, who con- 

 ducted us to the town, at our entrance into which place^. 

 we were saluted by the Indians with a volley of fire 

 arms. On Monday, we went to Dekanoagah, upon the 

 river Susquchaima, being about nine miles from Peque- 

 han. Some time after our coming here a meeting was^ 

 held of the Shawanois, Senequois and Canoise Indians, 

 and the Nantikoke Indians from the seven following 

 towns, viz: Matcheattochouisie, Witicliquaom, Teah- 

 quois, Matchcouchtin, Natahquois, Byengeahtein, and 

 Pohecommoati; an Indian presented to the Governor 

 and liis company, and all the Indians then present, a 



•Gordon, 150 ; Proud, I. 482. 



fMartin Charticr, who had lived long among the Shawanah 

 Indians!— Co/. Rec. H, 133. 



