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families had left their habitations, through fear of being 

 attacked by the Indians. 



The Governor and council paid strict attention to tlic 

 representations of Mr. Wright, and made necessary- 

 arrangements to go to the seat of disturbance to recon- 

 cile those at enmity. The Governor, attended with 

 some members of the council, and divers other gentle- 

 men, to the number of about thirty, set out from Phila- 

 delphia, May 22, 1'72&, and on the evening of the 23rd, 

 arrived at the house of Mr. Andrew Cornish, about a 

 mile distant from Indiantown. Here they spent the 24th 

 and 25th, in waiting for some other persons expected at 

 tlie treaty and in mutual civilities ;• and on the 26th, the 

 treaty began at the- Indian town of Conestogoe. 



Present: The Hon. Patrick Gordon, Esq., Lieut. Go- 

 \'ernor, some members of council and divers other gen- 

 tlemen. Present, also, viz: Ganyataronga, Tawenna, 

 Tanniatchiaro, Taquatarensaly, alias Captain Civility, 

 chiefs of the Conestogoe Indians; Oholykon, Peyeas- 

 hiskon, Wikimikyona, chiefs of some of the Delaware 

 Indians, on Brandy wine; Howickyoma, Skayanannego, 

 Onneygheat, Nanamakamen, Peyhiohinas, chiefs of the 

 Ganawese Indians; Weysow-walow, Keyscykakalow^ 

 Nichtamskakow, chiefs of the Sliawanese. 



Shakawtawlin, or Sam, interpreter from the Delaware 

 mto the Shawanese and Mingoe, {alias Conestogoe). — 

 Pomapechtoa, interpreter from the Delaware into tlie 

 Ganawese language. Nicholas Scull, John Scull, and 

 Peter Bizallion, assistant interpreters. 



The Governor spoke as follows: My friends and 

 brethren, you are sensible that the great William Penn, 

 the father of this country, when he first brought his 

 people with him over the broad sea, took all the Indians, 

 the old inhabitants, by the hand, and because he found 



