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ginia, called the Lord Effingham, together with Colonel 

 Dongan, Governor of New York, held a treaty 

 with them at Albany, of which we had the writings to 

 this day. 



Ghesaont answered, they knew it well, and the sub- 

 jects of that treaty, it was, he said about settling of 

 lands. Bemg fmlher told, that in that treaty the Five 

 Nations had given up all their right to all the lands on 

 Susquehanna to the Duke of York, then brother to the 

 King of England. He acknowledged this to be so, and 

 that WiUiam Penn since had the rights of these lands. — 

 To which Civility, a descendant of the ancient Sasque- 

 hamiah Indians, the old settlers of these parts, but now 

 reputed as of an Iroquois descent, added that he had 

 been informed by their old men, that they were troubled, 

 when they heard that their lands had been given up to a. 

 place so far distant as New York, and that they were 

 overjoyed when they miderstood William Pemi had 

 brought them back again, and that they had confirmed, 

 all theii- right to him. 



Divers questions were further asked him, especially 

 concerning the French of Canada, their trade and fortifi- 

 cations, on wiiich he said that the French had tlu-ee forts 

 on this side the river of St. Lawrence, and between their 

 towns and INIentual, furnished with great numbers of 

 great guns, that the French drove a great trade with 

 them, had people constantly in, or going to and coming 

 from their towns, that the French kept young people in 

 their tov/ns on purpose to learn the Indian language, 

 which many of them now spoke as well as themselves ; 

 that they had a great intercourse with them, that about 

 thiee hundred of their men, viz : of the Five Nations, 

 were seated on the other side of the great river, that the 

 French had this last spring begun to build or to provida 



