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however, who were disposed to resort to no violence^ 

 even should the Marylanders employ force to gain their 

 object, did not coincide with the Governor in these 

 violent measures. The Indians had become greatly 

 alarmed ; a council was held at Conestoga, on Friday 

 and Saturday, the 15th and 16th June, 1722; when the 

 Indians agreed, in order Governor Keith might have a 

 better title to resist the Marylanders, that a large tract 

 should be conveyed to him for the use of Springett 

 Peim, grandson of William Penn, senior. 



The following is a copy of the minutes of the council, 

 held at Conestoga: Present, Governor W. Keith, Colonel 

 John French, Francis Worley, Esq.; the chiefs of the 

 Conestogoe, Shawana and Ganaway Indians ; Smith, 

 the Ganaway Indian, and James Le Tort, interpreters. 



The Governor spoke as follows : Friends and brothers, 

 the belts which I lately received from the Five Nations, 

 signify that they are on^ people with the English, and 

 our very kind neighbors and friends. They invite me 

 to come to them, and I purpose, in a short time, to go 

 and meet them at Albany, and to make the chain as 

 bright as the sun. When they see me, they will remem- 

 ber their great friend William Penn; and then our 

 hearts will be filled with love, and our councils with 

 peace. 



Friends and brothers, you say you love me, because I 

 come from your father, William Penn, to follow his 

 ways, and to fulfil all his kind promises to the Indians. 

 You call me William Penn, and I am proud of the name 

 you give me. But if we have a true love for tlie 

 memory of William Fenn, we must show it to his 

 family and his children,, that are grown up to be men in 

 England,, and will soon come over to represent him here. 

 The last time I was with you at Conestogoe, you, 



