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Ganawese and Shawanese Indians upon Susquehanna, and to speak in 

 love to tliem. 



"My Brethren: You have been faithful to your Leagues with us, your 

 hearts have been clean, and you have preserved the chain from spots 

 or rust, or if there were any you have been careful to wipe them away ; 

 your leagues with your Father William Penn and with his Governors, 

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

 may have them in everlasting remembrance. And we know that you 

 preserve tlie memory of those things amongst you by telling them to 

 3^our children, and they again to the next generation, so that they re- 

 main stamped on your minds never to be forgot. 



"The chief heads or strongest links of this chain I find are these nine, 

 viz : 



1st. "That all William Penn's people or Christians, and all the Indians 

 should be brethren, as the children of one father, joined together as with 

 one heart, one head and one bodv. 



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

 Indians. 



3d. " That the doors of the Christians' houses should be open to the 

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

 should make each other welcome as their friends. 



4:th. " That the Christians should not believe any false rumors or re- 

 ports of the Indians, nor the Indians believe any such rumors or reports 

 of the Christians, but should first come as brethren to enquire of each 

 other ; and that both Christians and Indians, when they hear any such 

 false reports of their brethren, they should bury them in a bottom- 

 less pit. 



5th. "That if the Christians hear any ill news that may be to the hurt 

 of the Indians, or if the Indians hear any such ill news that may be to 

 the injury of the Christians, they should acquaint each other with it 

 speedily as true friends and brethren. 



6th. " That the Indians should do no manner of harm to the Christians 

 nor their creatures, nor the Christians do any hurt to any Indians, but 

 each treat the other as their brethren. 



7th. "But as there are wicked people in all nations, if either Indians or 

 Christians should do any harm to each other, complaint should be made 

 of it by the persons suffering, that right may be done, and when satisfac- 

 tion IS made, the injury or wrong should be forgot, and be buried as in 

 a bottomless pit. 



8th. "That the Indians should in all things assist the Christians, and 

 the Christians assist the Indians against all wicked people that would 

 disturb them. 



9th. "And lastly, that both Christians and Indians should acquaint 



