OF LANCASTER COUNTY. 109 



" Then, presenting a belt of wampum of eight rows, they say : They 

 would not have the Governor grieve too much for the rash inconsiderate 

 actions that of late have been committed ; they must be buried and forgot, 

 for that what has happened was done by their friends; if it had been done 

 by their enemies the}^ would have resented it, but that we and they are 

 one; that they have always met with justice and kindness from William 

 Penn, and from all the Governors whom he has sent here, and thus do all 

 the Indians of Conestogoe, Delaware, the Shawanese and Ganawese say. 



"That they are extremely glad and satisfied with what the Governor 

 said to them yesterday ; it greatly rejoiced their hearts ; that they have had 

 no such speech made to them since the time that the great William Penn 

 was amongst them ; all was "good and nothing was amiss. 



"Then, presenting four strings of wampum, they say: They will visit 

 the Governor at Philadelphia after the harvest is over, and then they will 

 speak fully to him as their brother and friend, for the Conestogoes, Dela- 

 wares, Shawanese and Ganawese will then come to him, and he may look 

 up the Conestogoe road and expect them ; that what happened at John 

 Burt's house was not done by them; it was done by one of the Meny- 

 sincks, who are of another Nation, and therefore they can say nothing 

 to it." 



After this Answer of the Indians some of the gentlemen present moved 

 the Governor, that seeing there was now a numerous company of our 

 inhabitants met together, he would be pleased to })ress the Indians to 

 declare to him if they suffered any grievance or hardship from this Gov- 

 ernment, because several reports had been industriously spread abroad 

 as if they had some just cause of complaint. And the Governor having 

 ordered the interpreters to acquaint them herewith ; they all answered 

 that they had no cause of complaint, that William Penn and his people 

 had still treated them well, and they had no uneasiness. 



The Governor then told them that he was well pleased with what they 

 had said unto him, and that since the Indian, who killed the Englishman 

 at Burt's house is not of their Nation, he would demand justice from that 

 Nation to which he belonged. 



The Proclamation w^as then interpreted unto them, which seemed to. 

 please them very much. 



Then the Governor having ordered some rum, bread, tobacco and 

 pipes to be delivered to them, and likewise one strowd matchcoat and one 

 shirt to Civility, one strowd matchcoat and shirt to Shakatawlin or Sam, 

 and one shirt to Pomapechtya, the three Indian interpreters; he took all 

 the Indian chiefs by the hand, and desired them that when they returned 

 home they should acquaint all their people with what had now passed 

 between them and us, that the remembrance thereof might endure for- 

 ever. 



