46 HISTORY OF 



ened the hands of the magistrates, he hypocritically- 

 caused his proclamations to be read in the churches and! 

 religious meetings, against the veiy disorders which he 

 himself committed." 



''■Ht permitted French papists fy'rom Canada to 

 trade with the Indians, and seduce them from, the 

 Eiiglish inter est. ^^^ 



Having presented the reader a historical brief of his 

 moral and political character, an account of his last 

 journey, as laid before the Board in council, the 22d 

 July, 1707, is given in extenso, in these words: "The 

 Governor, with Messrs. John French, Wm. Tonge, 

 Mitchel Bezaillion, Gray, and four servants, set out from 

 New Castle the 27th of June, and the next morning 

 arrived at Octoraro, where the Governor was presented 

 with some skins by the Indians, and the same night we 

 arrived at Pequehan, " at the mouth of Pequae creek" 

 being received at Martines,t by O Pessah,. ^'ihe chief 

 of the Shawajioes," and some Indian chiefs,, who con- 

 ducted us to the town, at our entrance inta which place, 

 we were saluted by the Indians with a volley of fire 

 arms. On Monday, we went to Dekanoagah, upon the 

 river Susquehanna, being about nine miles from Peque- 

 han. Some time after our coming here a meeting was 

 held of the Shawanois, Senequois and Canoise Indians, 

 and the Nantikoke Indians from the seven following 

 towns, viz: Matcheattochouisie, Witichquaom, Teah- 

 quois, Matchcouchtin, Natahquois, Byengeahtein, and 

 Pohecommoati ; an Indian presented to the Governor 

 and his company, and all the Indians then present, a 



*GordoD,150; Proud, 1.482.. 



f Martin Chartier, who had lived long among the Shawanah 

 Indians 1—Co^. Rcc. II, 133. 



