2-i AUTHENTIC HISTOIiY 



that year, William Penu formed a solemn treaty "witli Connodaghtoh, 

 king of the Susquehannali Minquays or Conestogo Indians, Wopatlitha 

 (alias Opessali), King of the Shawanese, AVcewhinjough, chief of the 

 Ganawese, inhabiting at the head of the Patowmeck ; also, Ahoakassongh, 

 brother to the emperor or great king of the Onandagoes of the Five 

 Nations, and others. The Minquays and ShaAvanese had by that time 

 become residents of Lancaster County. Some Ganawese, in consequence 

 of the encroachments of the Virginians, found soon after this hospitable 

 shelter in the neighborhood of Conestogo. Secretary Logan visited 

 them at their settlement, some miles above Conestogo, at a place called 

 Connejaghera, above the fort. 



In the spring of 1706 the Conestogos, Shawanos, and Ganawese Indians, 

 upon the Susquehanna, came to confer with the government at Philadel- 

 phia. The chief of the Conestogos exhibited a white belt with tAventy- 

 one rows, with three hands Avrought in it in black. lie said that this was 

 a pledge of peace formerly delivered b}^ the Onandagos to the Nanticokes, 

 when they made them tributaries : that the JSTanticokes Avere under some 

 apprehension of danger from the Five Xations, and had brought this 

 belt Avith them to Conestogo, Avitli another like it, in order that, Avhich- 

 ever route the Confederates should take, one of the belts might be exhi- 

 bited to them before they passed through Pennsylvania, and that they 

 might see that they had made peace and that the proA'incial gOA'crnment 

 was at peace Avith the neighboring Indians. 



In 1707 Gov. Evans visited Conestogo and met there some Nanticokes 

 from Seven Towns who had waited ten days to see him and Avere on their 

 Avay to Onandago Avhither the}" Avere carrying, as a tribute, tAventy belts 

 of Avampum. From the Governor's report it appears that he first arrived 

 at Pequehan, a ShaAvanese settlement, Avhere he saAV Opessah and some 

 other chiefs, at 9 miles from Pequehan, at a place called Dekanoagah, 

 on the Susquehanna, he met in conference some Senecas, ShaAvanese, 

 Canois and Nanticokes. He returned to Pequehan and staycxi there until 

 the morroAV. While there some ShaAvanese arrived from Carolina r.o 

 settle. 



In 1717 Governor Keith met chiefs of "the Conestogo or Mingo 

 Indians, the DelaAvares, ShaAvanese and GanaAvese, all inhabitants upon 

 or near the riA^er Susquehanna" in conference at Conestogo. 



At a council held at Conestogo in 1721-22, by Mr. Logan and Col. 

 French, there Avere present Conestogos, ShaAwanese, Ganawese, Cayugas 

 and DelaAvares. 



The Avarrant for the survey of Springctsburg manor, issued in 1722, 

 recites that the tJiree nations of Indians on the north side of the Susque- 

 hanna, the Conestogos, ShaAvanese and Conoys, Avere disturbed, etc. 



At a conference held in 1723 WhiAvhingee, a GanaAvese chief, enumer- 



