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Richard Hill, Jonathan Dickinson, Col. John French, 

 James Logan, secretary. 



The Governor desired the Board would advise him as to 

 the quantity and kind of presents that must be made to 

 the Indians in retmii to theirs, and in confirmation of his 

 speech to them. Whereupon it was agreed that twenty- 

 five strowd match coats of two yards each, one 

 hundred weight of gunpowder, two hundred weight of 

 lead, with some biscuit, tobacco and pipes, should be 

 delivered as the Governor's present to the Five Nations. 

 And the same being prepared accordingly, the council 

 was adjourned to Conestoga, the place of treaty. 



At a council held at Conestoga, July 8th, 1721. P. M. 

 Present: Gov. Keith, and the same members as before, 

 with divers^ gentlemen attending, the Governor and the 

 chiefs of the Five Nations being all seated in council^ 

 and the presents laid down before the Indians. — 

 The Governor spoke to them, by tlie interpreters, in 

 these words : 



My friends and brothers, it is a great satisfaction to me 

 that I have this opportunity of speaking to the valient 

 and wise Five Nations, whom you tell me you are fully 

 empowered to represent. I treat with you, therefore, as 

 if all these nations, here, were present; and you are to 

 understand that what I now say to be agreeable to the 

 minds of our great monarch, George, the King of Eng- 

 land, who lends his care to establish peace amongst all 

 the mighty nations of Europe, and unto whom all the 

 the people, in these parts, are as it were but like one 

 drop of a bucket;, so that what is now transacted 

 between us must be laid up as the words of the whole 

 body of your people and our people, to be kept in 

 perpetual remembrance. I am also- glad to find that 

 you remember what WiUiam Penn formerly said to you. 



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