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Law to Settle the Accompts of the Commissioner for Confiscated Property, 

 and have their Certificate that I am in Debt one Hundred and four Pounds, 

 seven shillings, to the State. I have Paid to the State Treasurer Eighty- 

 eight thousand four Hundred and forty-nine Pounds, one shilling, and 

 three pence. 



I am your Excellency's very humble Servant, 



Charles Hall. 

 Directed — To His Excellency Joseph Eeed, President, Philadelphia. 

 Per favour Col. Crawford. 



At this place and in this connection it seems proper to reprint the 

 following transactions belonging to an earlier period : 



At a Council held at Philadelphia, on Tuesday 16th May, 1775. 



PRESENT: 



The Honourable JOHN PENN, Esquire, Governor. 

 James Tilghman, | 

 Andrew Allen, f ^ 



The Governor acquainted the Board that eight Cayuga Indians came 

 to Town on Saturday last from Canasadego, on the Cayuga Branch of 

 Susquehanna, on some Business with this Government, and that he now 

 proposed to hear what they had to say. Whereupon the Board agreed 

 that they should be immediately sent for, and they were accordingly 

 introduced. Their names are as follows. Viz : 



[The names are not here inserted.] 



The Governor then acquainting them that he was ready to hear 

 them, addressing himself to the Governor, first went through some 

 short usual Ceremonies of clearing the Throat and Heart, and open- 

 ing the Ears, &c., and then producing a Belt of Wampum, spoke as 

 follows. Viz: That three of their Company, who were present as the 

 nearest surviving Eelations of the old Seneca Sohaes, who lived for 

 many Years with his Family and Connections on a Tract of Land within 

 the Manor of Conestogo, in Lancaster County; that the old Man with 

 his Family and Eelations were several Years ago Murdered there by 

 some wicked Men belonging to this Government; and that the said 

 Tract of Land, containing about 500 Acres, now became the Property 

 of his three Eelations present, one of whom is Sohaes' Brother; that 

 they had come down at this time to see their Brother Onas, and to make 

 Sale of the said Land to him ; That the Land is very rich, and worth a 

 great deal of Money, but as their Brother Onas was himself well ac- 

 quainted with its value, they desired he would purchase it from them for 

 such a price as he thought reasonable, and they would be entirely satis- 

 fied. He then delivered the Belt of Wampum to the Governor, and told 

 him that he had finished what he had to say. 



