THE INDIAN TREATY HELD AT LANCASTER. 51 



No. 7. 



THE INDIAN TREATY HELD AT LANCASTER. 



At a Council held at Philadelphia, the 24:th day of July, 1744. 



present: 



The Honourable GEOKGE THOMAS, Esqr., Lieutenant Governor. 



Clement Plumsted, Abraham Taylor ] 



Samuel Hasell, Robert Strettell, {- Esqrs. 



William Till, J 



The Minutes of the preceding Council were read and approved. 



The Governor laid before the Board the Minutes of the Treaty held 

 with the Indians at Lancaster, and the same was ordered to be inserted 

 in the Council Book, and is as follows: 



A TREATY 



Held at the Town of Lancaster, in Pennsylvania, by the Honourable 

 the Lieutenant Governor of the Province and the Honourable the Com- 

 missioners for the Provinces of Virginia and Maryland with the Indians 

 of the Six Nations, in June, 17-44: : 



In the Court House in the Town of Lancaster, on Friday, the 22d 

 June, 1744. 



present: 



The Honourable GEORGE THOMAS, Esqr., Lieutenant Governor of 



the Province of Pennsylvania and Counties of New Castle, Kent, and 



Sussex on Delaware. 



The Honourable Thomas Lee, Esqr., ) „ . . .+• at- • • 



} Commissioners oi V irginia. 

 Colonel William Beverly, ) 



The Honourable Edmund Jenings, ) ,-, . . r. , p •, -, 



^ ■ Commissioners ot Maryland. 

 Philip Thomas Esqr., ) 



Colonel Robert King. 



Colonel Thomas Calvil. 



The Deputies of the Onondagoes, Senecas, Cayogoes, Oneidas, and 

 Tuscaroraes. 



Conrad Weiser, Interpreter. 



The Governor and the Commissioners took some of the Indian Chiefs 

 by the Hand, and after they had seated themselves the Governor bid them 

 Welcome into the Government, and there being Wine and Punch pre- 

 pared for them, the Governor and the several Commissioners drank health 



