THE INDIAN TREATY HELD AT LANCASTER. 



Brought forward, 

 3 Pieces half Thkiks 

 3 Pieces Duffle Blankets a £7 

 1 Piece Do. 



47 Guns, 26s. 



Pennsylvania Currency 



When the Indians had agreed to take these Goods at the Rates above 

 specify'd, they informed the Interpreter that they would give an Answer 

 to the Speech made to them this morning by the Honourable the Com- 

 missioners of Maryland, but did not express the Time when such answer 

 should be made. 



At tAvelve o'Clock the Commissioners departed the Chamber. 



In the Court House at Lancaster, June 28th, 1744, P. 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 Commissioners of Virginia desired the Interpreter to let the In- 

 dians know that their Brother Assaraquoa was now going to give his 

 Reply to their Answer to his first Speech, delivered them the day before 

 in the forenoon: 



" Sachims and Warriors of the Six Nations : 



" We are now come to answer what you said to Us Yesterday, since 

 what we sayd to you before on the Part of the Great King, our Father, 

 has not been satisfactory. You have gone into Old Times and so must 

 we. It is true that the Great King holds Virginia by Right of Conquest, 

 and the Bounds of that Conquest to the Westward is the Great sea. 



"If the Six Nations have made any Conquest over Indians that may 

 at any time have lived on the West side of the Great Mountains of Vir- 

 ginia, yet they never possessed any Lands there that we have ever heard. 

 That part was altogether deserted, and free for any People to enter upon, 

 as the People of Virginia have done by order of the Great King, very 

 justly as well by an Antient Right as by its being freed from the Pos- 

 session of any other, and from any Claim, even of you the Six Nations, 

 our Brethren, until within these Eight Years. The first Treaty between 

 the Great King, in behalf of his Subjects of Virginia and you, that we 



