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can find, was made at Albany by Colonel Henry Coursey, Seventy years 

 Since. This was a Treaty of Friendship, when the first Covenant Chain 

 was made, when we and you became Brethren. 



" The next Treaty was also at Albany above fifty-Eight years ago, by 

 the Lord Howard, Governor of Virginia. Then you declare yourselves 

 Subjects of the Great King, our Father, and gave up to him all your 

 Lands for his Protection. This you Own in a Treaty made by the Gov- 

 ernor of Newyork with you at the same Place in the Year 1687, and you 

 Express yourselves in these AVords : ' Brethren you tell us the King 

 of England is a very Great King, and why should you not join with us 

 in a very just Cause when the French join with Our Enemies in an un- 

 just Cause. O Brethren we see the Eeason of this, for the French would 

 fain kill us all, and when that is done they would carry all the Beaver 

 Trade to Canada, and the Great King of England would lose the Lands 

 likewise ; And therefore, O Great Sachim beyond the Great Lakes, awake 

 and suffer not those poor Indians that have given themselves and their 

 Lands under your Protection to be destroyed by the French without a 

 Cause.' 



" The last Treaty we shall Speak to you about is that made at Albany 

 by Governor Spotswood, which you have not recited as it is ; for the 

 White People, Your Brethren of Virginia, are in no Article of that 

 Treaty Prohibited to pass and Settle to the Westward of the Great 

 Mountains. It is the Indians' Tributary to Virginia that are restrained, 

 as you and your Tributary Indians are from Passing to the Eastward of 

 the same Mountains or to the Southward of Cohongoroonton, And you 

 agree to this Article in these words : ' That the Great Eiver of Patow- 

 mack and the High Kidge of Mountains which extend all along the 

 Frontiers of Virginia to the westwards of the Present Settlements of that 

 Colony, Shall be for ever the established Boundaries between the In- 

 dians subject to the Dominions of Virginia and the Indians belonging 

 and depending on the Five Nations, so that neither our Indians shall not, 

 on any Pretence whatsoever, pass to the Northward or westward of the 

 said Boundaries without having to produce a Passport under the hand 

 and Seal of the Governor or Commander-in-Chief of Virginia, nor your 

 Indians to pass to the Southward or EastAvard of the said Boundaries 

 without a Passport in like manner from the Governor or Commander- 

 in-Chief of New York.' 



"And what Eight can you have to Lands that you have no Eight to 

 walk upon but upon certain conditions? It is true you have not ob- 

 served this part of the Treaty, and Your Brethren of Virginia have not 

 insisted on it with a due Strictness, which has Occasioned some mischief. 



"This Treaty hath been sent to the Governor of Virginia by Order of 

 the Great King, and is what we must Eely on, and being in writing is 



