LANCASTER COUNTY. 201 



Governors, are in writing on record, that our children's 

 children may have them in everlastmg remembrance. — 

 And we know that you preserve the memory of 

 those things amongst you by telling them to your 

 children, and they again to the next generation, so that 

 they remained stamped on your minds never to be forgot. 

 The chief heads or strongest links of this chain, I find 

 are these nine, viz : 



1. Tliat all William Penn's people or christians, and 

 all the Indians should be brethren, the children of one 

 father, joined together as with one heart, one head, and 

 one body. 



2. That all paths should be open and free to both 

 christians and Indians. 



3. That the doors of the christian's house should be 

 open to the Indians, and the houses of the Indians to 

 the christians, and that they shouid make each other 

 welcome as friends. 



4. That the christians should not believe any false 

 rumors or reports of the Indians, nor the Indians believe 

 any such rumors or reports of the christians, but should 

 first come as brethren to inquire of each other; and that 

 both christians and Indians when they hear such false 

 reports of their brethren, should bury them as in a bot- 

 tomless pit. 



5. That if the christians heard any ill news that may 

 be to the hurt of the Indians, or the Indiaiis hear any 

 such ill news that may be to the injuiy of the cliristians, 

 they should acquaint each other with it speedily, as true 

 friends and bretlu'en. 



6. That the Indians should do no more any manner of 

 harm to the christians, nor their creatures, nor the chris- 

 tians do any hurt to any Indians, but each trust the other 

 as their brethren. 



