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great King of England; he made a law that the 

 French should not have any more goods from the 

 English : that this had been the reason of the clouds and 

 dark weather they complained of; but that now a clear 

 sunshine, as they desired, would be restored to them . 

 that he very well knew this gentleman, the new 

 Governor, that he had not long since been at Philadel- 

 phia, and at his (the secretary's) house, and that he 

 heard him say he would take care his Indians should 

 be well supplied for the future, and accordingly they 

 might depend on it. 



Ghesaont hereupon asked, whether they did not know 

 that the French had for some years past, had the cloths 

 from the English, ansAvered, that they knew very well 

 that these English goods went now in a new path, 

 different from that they had formerly gone in, that they 

 knew not where they went, but they went beside them 

 and they could not get hold of them, though they much 

 wanted them. 



The secretary proceeded to say^ that as New York and 

 Albany had been their most ancient friends, so they 

 could best supply them, and they could certainly do it, if 

 they continued in duty on their part; that they were 

 sensible the great King of England had a regard for 

 them, by the notice that he took of them almost every 

 year; that all the English, every where, were friends. — 

 We were now very glad to see them, but wished for the 

 future they would come to Philadelphia, as they 

 formerly used to do; that he himself had seen their 

 chiefs twice at Philadelphia, the two years that William 

 Penn was last here,. and that when his son came over 

 about three years after, now about seventeen years ago,, 

 a considerable number of them came down and held a 

 great council^ with us, and therefore he hoped they 



