82 AUTHENTIC HISTORY OF LANCASTER COUNTY. 



Whicli was received with the usual Ceremony. 



"Brethren : 



"Our Friend Conrad Weiser, when he is old, will go into the other 

 World, as Our Fathers have done; our Children will then want such a 

 Friend to go between them and your Children to reconcile any difter- 

 ences that may happen to Arise between them, that, like him, may have 

 the Ears and Tongues of our Children and yours. 



" The way to have such a Friend is for you to send three or four of 

 your Boys to Virginia, where we have a fine House for them to Live in, 

 and a Man on purpose to teach the Children of you, our Friends, the 

 Religion, Language, and Customs of the White People. To this Place 

 we kindly invite you to send some of your Children, and we promise 

 you they shall have the same care taken of them, and be Instructed in 

 the same manner as our own Children, and be returned to you again 

 when you please ; and to confirm this we give you this String of Wam- 

 pum." 



Which was received with the usual Ceremony. 



Then the Commissioners of Maryland Spoke as follows: 



"Friends and Brethren, the Chiefs or Sachims of the Six United 



Nations : 



"The Governor of Maryland invited you hither, we have treated you 

 as Friends and agreed with you as Brethren. 



"As the Treaty now made concerning the Lands in Maryland Will, 

 we hope, Prevent effectually every future Misunderstanding between us 

 on that Account, we will now bind faster the Links of Our Chain of 

 Friendship by a Renew^al of all our former Treaties; and that they may 

 still be the better Secured we shall present you with One hundred 

 Pounds in Gold. 



" What we have further to say to you is, Let not our Chain contract 

 any Rust ; whenever you perceive the least Speck tell us of it and we 

 will make it clean. This we also expect of you, that it may always con- 

 tinue so bright as our Generations may see their Faces in it; and in 

 pledge of the Truth of what we have now Spoken and our affection to 

 you, we give you this Belt of Wampum," 



Which was received with the usual Ceremony. 



Canassatego in return spoke as follows : 



"Brother Onas, Assaraquoa, and Tocarry-ho-gan — 



" We return you thanks for your several Speeches, which are very 

 agreeable to us. They contain matters of great moment; that we pro- 

 pose to give them- a very Serious consideration, and to answer them 

 Suitably to their Worth and Excellence, and this will take till To-morrow 

 Morning, and when we are ready we will give you due Notice. 



"You tell us you beat the French; if so you must have taken a great 



