200 HISTORY OF 



them to be sincere, honest people, he took them to his 

 heart and loved them as his own. He then made a 

 strong league and chain of friendship with them, by 

 which it was agreed that the Indians and English, with 

 all the christians, should be as one people. Your friend 

 and father, William Penn, still retained a warm affection 

 for all the Indians, and strictly commanded those whom 

 he had sent to govern this people to treat the Indians as 

 his children, and contirmed in tli^s kind love for them 

 until his death. 



His sons have now sent me over in their stead, and 

 they gave me strict charge to love all the Indians as their 

 brethren, and as their father, William Penn, loved you. 

 I would have seen you before this time, but I fell sick 

 soon after I came over, and continued so until next 

 spring. I then waited to receive some of the Five 

 Nations who came to see me at Philadelphia, and last 

 fall I heard you were all gone hunting. 



I am now come to see you, and to renew the ancient 

 friendship which has been between William Penn's 

 people and you. I was in hopes that Sassoonan and 

 Opekasset, with their people, would have been likewise 

 here; they have sent me kind messages and have a 

 warm love for the christians. I believe they will come 

 to me at Philadelphia, for since they could not get hither 

 I have desired them to meet me there. I am now to 

 discourse with my brethren, the Conestogoes, Delawares, 

 Ganawese and Shawanese Indians upon Susquehanna, 

 and to speak in love to them. 



My brethren, ^^ou have been faithful to yoiw leagues 

 with us, your hearts have been clean, and you have 

 preserved the chain from spots or rust, or, if there were 

 any, you have been careful to wipe them away. Your 

 leagues with your father, William Penn, and with his 



