<dQ AUTHENTIC HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY. 



and brought it to tlie Foot of the Great Mountain where it now is, and 

 it is impossible for us to remove it any further to the West, those Parts 

 of the Country being absolutely impassable by either Man or Beast. 



"We had not been long in the Use of this new Eoad before your 

 People came like Flocks of Birds and sat down in both sides of it, and 

 yet we never made a Complaint to you, tho' you must be Sensible 

 those things must have been done by your People in manifest Breach of 

 your own Proposal made at Albany ; and therefore as we are now open- 

 ing our Hearts to you, we cannot avoid Complaining, and desire all these 

 Affairs may be settled ; and that you may be Stronger induced to do us 

 Justice for what is Past, and to come to a thorough Settlement for the 

 future, we, in the Presence of the Governor of Maryland and Brother 

 Onas, present you with this Belt of Wampum." 



Which was received with the usual Ceremony. 



Then Tachanoontia added: 



"We forgot to say that the Affair of the Road must be looked upon 

 as a Preliminary to be Settled before the Grant of Lands, and that either 

 the Virginia People must be obliged to Remove more Easterly, or if they 

 are Permitted, to say that our Warriors Marching that way to the South- 

 ward shall go sharers with them in what they Plant." 



In the Court House at Lancaster, 28th June, 1744, A. M. 



PRESENT: 



The Honourable GEORGE THOMAS, Esqr., Governor, &c. 



The Honourable the Commissioners of Virginia. 



The Honourable the Commissioners of Maryland. 



The Deputies of the Six Nations. 



Conrad Weiser, Interpreter. 



The Governor Spoke as follows : 



" Friends and Brethren of the Six Nations : 



" I am always sorry when any thing happens that may Create the 

 least uneasiness between us, but as we are mutually engaged to keep the 

 Road between Us clear and open, and to remove every obstruction that 

 may lie in the way, I must inform you that three of the Delaware Indians 

 lately Murdered John Armstrong, an Indian Trader, and his two men, in 

 a most barbarous manner, as he was traveling to Allegheny, and stole his 

 Goods of a considerable value. Shick Calamy and the Indians settled at 

 Shamokin did well ; they seized two of the Murderers and sent them down 

 to Our Settlements, but the Indians who had the Charge of them after- 

 wards suffered one of them to Escape on a Pretence that he was not con- 

 cerned in the Bloody deed. The other is now in Philadelphia Goal. By 

 our Laws all the Accessaries to a Murder are to be Tryed and Put to 

 Death as well as the Person who gave the Deadly wound. If they con- 



