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giiiia, called the Lord Effingham, together with Colonel 

 Dongan, Governor of New York, held a treaty 

 with them at Albany, of which we had the writings to 

 this day. 



Ghesaont answered, they knew it well, and the sub- 

 jects of that treaty, it was, he said about settling of 

 lands. Being further told, that in that treaty the Five 

 Nations had given up all their right to all the lands on 

 Susquehanna to the Duke of York, then brother to the 

 King of England. He aclaiowledged this to be so, and 

 that William Pemi since had the ridits of these lands. — 

 To Vvdiich Civility, a descendant of the ancient Sasque- 

 hannah Indians, the old settlers of these parts, but now 

 reputed as of an Iroquois descent, added that he had 

 been informed by their old men, thavt they were troubled, 

 when they heard that their lands had been given up to a 

 place so far distant as New York, and that they v/ere 

 overjoyed when they understood William Penn had 

 I'lought them back again, and that they had confirmed 

 all their right to him. 



Divers questions were further asked him, especially 

 concerning the French of Canada, their trade and fortifi- 

 cations, on wiiich he said that the French had thj-ee forts 

 on this side the-tiver of St. Lawrence, and between their 

 towns and Mentual, furnished with great numbers of 

 great guns, that the French drove a great trade with 

 them, had people constantly in, or going to and coming 

 from theh towns, that the French kept young people in 

 their towns on purpose to learn the Indian language, 

 wdiich many of them now spoke as well as themselves ; 

 that they had a great intercourse with them, that about 

 three hmidred of their men, viz : of the Five Nations, 

 were seated on the other side of the great river, that the 

 French had this last spring begun to build or to provide 



