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Secretary, informing, through him, the Governor, that 

 some of their Indians, while on a hunting expedition, 

 were attacked near the head of Potomack river, by a 

 body of southern Indians who had come out to war 

 against the Five Nations, and the Indian settlements on 

 Susquehamia; that the southern Indians had killed 

 several of their people, by which those at Conestoga 

 were so much alarmed that, in their opinion, " The care- 

 ful attention and vigilance of Government was never 

 more called upon than at this juncture." 



Measures were adopted by Government, "towards 

 quieting the minds of the Indians, and also to prevent 

 incursions upon them from southern Indians. In a letter 

 from them, to the Governor, in the beginning of June, 

 the Indians at Conestoga stated, "that if any of them had 

 done amiss, and departed from what was right and good, 

 in not strictly keeping their promises, and observing 

 peace with all the Indians in friendship and league with 

 the English, they would, having admitted their errors 

 and mistakes, offend no more, in that nature or case." 



Immediately on the receipt of the letter, in question, 

 CoL French was sent to Conestoga, by the advice of the 

 Board, to treat with the Indians. French met them 

 at Conestoga, on the 2Sth of June, 1719; on that day, he 

 spoke to them, as follows : 



Friends and Brothers: 



" By the seal to this paper affixed, and my old ac- 

 quaintance and friendship with you, you will believe me 

 that I am a true man, and sent from your good friend 

 and brother, the Governor of Pennsylvania, to let you 

 know tliat he is well pleased and satisfied with the letter 

 he received by the care of our good friend, John Cart- 

 ledge, in the beginning of this month, signed in behalf 

 of your nations here met, in which letter you declare, 



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