138 HISTORY OF 



severally, your iiiteiitions of keeping his words, and if 

 any amongst you have done amiss, and departed from 

 what was right and good in keeping your promises, to 

 observe, strictly, peace with all the Indians m friendship 

 ajid league with the English, you have therein 

 acknowledged your errors and mistakes, and engaged to 

 offend no more hi that nature or case. 



The Governor takes these assurances of your good 

 behavior very kindly, and now he and his council have 

 sent me on purpose to visit you that I might further 

 treat witli you, and receive you in the same manner, and 

 as fully as he and his council, of which I am a one, were 

 all here and present with you, so well begun with our 

 good friend, John Cartledge, and that I might more fully 

 and largely give him an account of your affairs, and how 

 matters go with you. I must, therefore, acquaint you 

 from my Governor, that as you, in your treaty, call 

 yourselves his children, he will always trust you as his 

 sons, and that he has ever since your good friend, 

 AVilliam Penn, who is now dead, sent amongst you, and 

 endeavored by all means to keep you in peace, and given 

 you other tokens of his friendship, that you might 

 flourish and increase, that your old men might see their 

 children grow up to their comfort and pleasure, and that 

 the young men might bury their old parents v/hcn tlicy 

 die, which is much better than to see your old people 

 momii for their young sons, who rashly, and without 

 cause, go to war and are killed in the prime of their 

 years ; and he hopes now that you arc all fully con- 

 vinced that peace is belter than war, which destroys you 

 and will Ijring you to nothing ; your strong yoimg people 

 being first killed, the old women and children are left 

 defenceless, who soon will become a prey: and so all 

 the nation perishes without leaving a name to posterity. 



