OF LANCASTER COUNTY. 105 



Howickyoma, 



Skayanannego, 



Onneygheat, |- Chiefs of the Ganawese Indians. 



Nanamakamen, | 



Peyhiohin.ic;, J 



Weysow-walow, "^ 



Keyscykakalow, )- Chiefs of the Shawanese. 



Nichtamskakow, J 



Shakawtawlin, or Sam, Interpreter from the English into the Dela- 

 ware. 



Captain Civility, Interpreter from the Delaware into the Shawanese 

 and Mingoe (alias Conestogoe.) 



Pomapechtoa, Interpreter from the Delaware into the Ganawese Lan- 

 guage. 



Mr. Nicholas Scull, -i 



Mr. John Scull, |- Assistant Interpreters. 



Mr. Peter Bizallion, J 



The Governor spoke as follows : 



"My Friends and Brethren: You are sensible that the Great Wil- 

 liam Penn, the Father of this Country, when he first brought his people 

 with him over the broad sea, took all the Indians and the old inhabitants 

 by the hand, and because he found them to be a sincere, honest people, 

 he took them to his heart and loved them as his own. He then made a 

 strong league and chain of Friendship with them, by which it was agreed 

 that the Indians and the English, with all the Christians, should be as 

 one people. 



"Your Friend and Father, Wm. Penn, still retained a warm affection 

 for all the Indians, and strictly commanded those whom he sent to govern 

 this people to treat the Indians as his children, and continued in this kind 

 love for them until his death. 



"His sons have now sent me over in their stead, and they gave me 

 strict charge to love all the Indians as their brethren, and as their Father 

 William Penn loved 3^ou. I would have seen you before this time, but 

 I fell sick soon after I came over, and continued so till the next Spring. I 

 then waited to receive some of the Five Nations who came to see me at 

 Philadelphia, and last Fall I heard you were all gone out a hunting. 



"I am now come to see you, and to renew the ancient Friendship 

 which has been between William Penn's people and you. I was in 

 hopes that Sassoonan and Opekasset, with their people, would have been 

 likewise here; they have sent me kind messages and have a warm love 

 for the Christians. I believe they will come to me at Philadelphia, for 

 since they could not get hither I have desired them to meet me there. 

 " I am now to discourse with my brethren, the Conestogoes, Delawares, 



