THE INDIAN TREATY HELD AT LANCASTER. 71 



more certain tlian your Menior3\ That i.s the way the wliite people have 

 of preserving Transactions of every kind, and transmitting them down 

 to their Children's Children forever; and all Disputes among them are 

 settled by this faithful kind of Evidence, and must be the Kule between 

 the Great King and you. This Treaty your Sacliims and warriors signed 

 some Years after the same Governor Spotswood, in the Kight of the 

 Great King, had been with some People of Virginia in possession of 

 these very Lands, which you have set up 3^our late claim to. 



" The Commissioners for Indian Affairs at Albany gave the Account 

 we mentioned to you yesterday to the Governor of New York, and he 

 sent it to the Governor of Virginia. Their names will be given you by 

 the Interpreter. 



" Brethren, this Dispute is not between Virginia and you. It is set- 

 ting up your Eight against the Great King, under whose Grants the 

 People you complain of are settled. Nothing but a Command from the 

 Great King can remove them ; They are too powerful to be removed by 

 any force of You our Brethren ; And the Great King, as our Common 

 Father, will do equal Justice to all his children ; wherefore, we do be- 

 lieve they will be confirmed in their Possessions. 



"As to the Eoad you mention, we intended to prevent any Occasion 

 for it by making a Peace between You and the Southern Indians a few 

 years since, at a considerable Expence to Our Great King, which you 

 Confirmed at Albany. It seems by your being at war with the Cataw- 

 bas that it has not been long kept between you. 



" However, if you desire a Eoad, we will agree to one on the Terms of 

 the Treaty you made with Colonel Spotswood; and your People's be- 

 having themselves orderly like Friends and Brethren shall be used in 

 their Passage through Virginia with the same kindness as they are when 

 they pass through the Lands of your Brother Onas. This we hope will 

 be agreed to by you Our Brethren, and we will abide by the Promise 

 made to you Yesterday. 



" We may Proceed to Settle what we are to give you for any Eight you 

 may have or have had to all the Lands to the Southward and Westward 

 of the Lands of your Brother the Governor of ^laryland, and of your 

 Brother Onas, though we are informed the Southeren Indians claim these 

 very Lands that you do. 



"We are desirous to live with you our Brethren according to the Old 

 Chain of Friendship to settle all these matters fairly and honestly. 



" And as a Pledge of Our Sincerity we give you this Belt of Wam- 

 pum." 



Which was received with the usual Ceremony. 



In the Court House Chamber at Lancaster, June the 29th, 17-i4. A. M. 



