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Secretary, informing, through him, the Governor, that 

 some of their Indians, while on a hunting expedition, 

 were attacked near the head of Potomack river, by a 

 body of southern Indians who had come out to war 

 against tlie Five Nations, and the Indian settlements on 

 Susquehanna; that the southern Indians had killed 

 sevCTal of their people, by which those at Conestoga 

 wei'e so much" alarmed that, in their opinion, "The care- 

 ful attention and vigilance of Government was nevei" 

 more called upon than at this juncture." 

 . Measures were adopted by Government, "towards 

 quieting the minds of the Indians, and also to prevent 

 incursions upon them from southern Indians. In a letter 

 from them, to the Governor, in the beginning of June, 

 tlie Indians at Conestoga stated, "that if any of them had 

 done amiss, and departed from what was right and good, 

 in not strictly keeping their promises, and observing 

 peace with all the Indians in friendship and league witli 

 the English, they would, having admitted their errors 

 and mistakes, offend no more, in that nature or case." 



Irmiiediately on the receipt of the letter, in question, 

 Col. French was sent to Conestoga, by the advice of the 

 Bo3j:d, to treat v/ith the Indians. French met them 

 at Conestoga, on the 2Sth of June, 1719; on that day, he 

 spoke to tliem,as follows: 



Friends and Brothers : 



*< By the seal to this paper affixed, and my old ac- 

 quaintance and friendship with you, you Avill believe ma 

 that I am a true man, and sent from your good friend 

 aflid brother, the Governor of Pennsylvania, to let you 

 know that he is well pleased and satisfied with the lettar 

 he received by the care of our good friend, John Cart- 

 ledge, in the beginning of this month, signed in behalf 

 of yom- nations here met, m which letter you declare, 



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