74 AUTHENTIC HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY. 



People living up there, so that we desire the Persons in Power may know 

 that we are to have reasonable Victuals when we are in want. 



"You know very well when the White People came first here they 

 were poor ; but now they have got our Lands and are by them become 

 Eich, and we are Now poor. What little we had for the Land goes soon 

 away, but the Land lasts forever. You told us you had brought with 

 you a Chest of Goods, and that you have the Key in your Pockets ; But 

 we have never seen the Chest nor the Goods that are said to be in it. 

 It may be small and the Goods few. We want to see them, and are de- 

 sirous to come to some Conclusion. We have been sleeping here these 

 Ten Days past, and have not done any thing to the Purpose." 



The Commissioners told them they should see the Goods on Monday. 



In the Court House at Lancaster, June the 30th, 1744. 



PRESENT : 



The Honourable GEOEGJ^^ THOMAS, Esqr., Governor. 



The Honourable the Commissioners of Virginia. 



The Honourable the Commissioners of Maryland. 



The Deputies of the Six Nations. 



Conrad Weiser, Interpreter. 



The three Governments Entertained the Indians and all the Gentlemen 

 in town with a handsome Dinner; the Six Nations in their order having 

 returned thanks with the usual Solemnity of Jo-ha-han, the Interpreter 

 informed the Governor and the Commissioners that as the Lord Propri- 

 etor and Governor of Maryland was not known to the Indians by any 

 particular Name, they had agreed in Council to take the first oppor- 

 tunity of a large company to present him with one, and as this with them 

 is deemed a matter of great Consequence, and attended with abundance 

 of Forme, the several Nations had drawn Lots for the performance of the 

 Ceremony, and the Lot falling on the Cayogo Nation, they had chosen 

 Gachradodow, one of their Chiefs, to be their Speaker, and he desired 

 leave to begin, which being given, he on an elevated part of the Court 

 House, with all the dignity of a Warrior, the Gesture of an Orator, and 

 in a very gracefull Posture, spoke as follows: 



" As the Governor of Maryland had Invited them here to Treat about 

 their Lands and brighten the Chain of Friendship, the United Nations 

 thought themselves so much obliged to him that they had come to a 

 Eesolution in Council to give to the Great man who is Proprietor of 

 Maryland a particular Name, by which they might hereafter correspond 

 with him, and as it had fallen to the Cayogo's Lot in Council to consider 

 of a proper name for that Chief Man, they had agreed to give him the 

 Name of Toearry-ho-gan, denoting Precedency, Excellency, or living in 

 middle or Honourable Place betwixt Assaraquoa and their Brother 



