6-i AUTHENTIC HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY. 



"Since you have Joined with the Governor of Maryland and Brother 

 Onas in Kindhng this Fire, we gladly acknowledge the pleasure we have 

 in seeing you here and observing your good DisiDositions, as well to 

 confirm the Treaties of Friendship as to enter into further Contracts 

 about Land with Us, and in token of Our Satisfaction We Present you 

 with this String of Wampum. 



Which was received with the usual Ceremonies. 



"Brother Assaraquoa: 



"In your Speech this Morning you were Pleased to say we had wrote 

 a Letter to James Logan about Seven years ago, to demand a Considera- 

 tion for our Lands in the Possession of some of the Virginians. That 

 you held them under the Great King for upwards of One hundred and 

 Sixty Years, and that we had already given up our Eight, and that 

 therefore you had desired the Governor of New York to send his In- 

 terpreter to Us last Year to Onandago, which he did, and as you say, 

 We, in Council at Onandago, did declare that we had no Demand on 

 3^ou for Lands, and that if we had any Pretensions we should have 

 made them known to the Governor of New York; and likewise you 

 desire to know if we have any Eights to the Virginia Lands, and that 

 we will make such Eight appear and tell you what nations of Indians 

 We conquered those Lands from. 



"Now we Answer, We have the Eight of Conquest — a Eight too 

 dearly Purchas'd, and which cost us too much Blood to give up without 

 an}^ Eeason at all, as you say We have done at Albany; but we should 

 be obliged to you if you would let us see that Letter, and Inform Us 

 who was the Interpreter and whose names are put to the Letter ; for as 

 the whole Transaction can't be above a year's standing, it must be fresh 

 in every Body's Memory, and some of Our Council would easily remem- 

 ber it ; but we assure you, and we are well able to prove that neither we 

 nor any Part of Us have ever relinquished our Eight, or ever gave such' 

 an Answer as you say is mentioned in your Letter. Could we so few 

 years ago make a Formal Demand by James Logan and not be sensible 

 of Our Eight ? and hath any thing happen'd since that time to make us 

 less sensible ? No. And as this matter can be easily cleared up we are 

 anxious it should be done, for we are Positive no such thing was ever 

 mentioned to us at Onandago nor any where else. All the World Knows 

 we conquered the Several Nations living on Sasquehanna, Cohongoronta, 

 and on the Back of the Great Mountains in Virginia. The Conoy-uch- 

 such-roona, Coch-nan-was-roonan, Tokoairough-roonan, and Connutskirr- 

 ough-roonaw, feel the effects of Our Conquests, being now a Part of Our 

 Nations, and their Lands at our Disposal. 



" We know very well it hath often been say'd by the Virginians that 

 the Great King of England and the People of that Colony conquered the 



