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quois confederacy, and make a seventh nation. The 

 Monacans or Tuscaroras, who were taken into the con- 

 federacy, in 1712, making the sixth. 



The Saponies are fiimiiies of the Wanamies, who 

 removed from New Jersey, and, with the Mohiccons, 

 Munsies, and Delawares, belong to the Leonopi na- 

 tion. The Mingos are a war colony from the Six Na- 

 tions ; so are the Cohnnnewagos. 



Of the rest of the northern tribes I never have been 

 able to learn any thing certain. But all accounts seem 

 to agree in this, that there is a very powerful nation, 

 distinguished by a variety of names taken from the se- 

 veral towns or families, but commonly called Tawas or 

 Outawas, who speak one language, and live round and 

 on the waters that fall into the western lakes, and ex- 

 tend from the waters of the Ohio quite to the waters 

 falling into Hudson's bay. 



NO. II. 



In the Summer of the Year 1783, it was expected, that the 

 Jlssemhly of Viro^inia loould call a Convention for the 

 Estahlishment of a Constitution. — The following 

 Draught of a Fundamental Constitution for the Com- 

 monwealth of Virginia was then prepared, with a De- 

 sign of being proposed in such Convention had it taken 

 place. 



To the Citizens of the Commonwealth of Virginia, 

 and all others whom it may concern, the Delegates for 

 the said Commonwealth in Convention assembled, send 

 greeting, 



It is known to you, and to the world, that the govern- 

 ment of Great Britain, with which the American States 

 were not long since connected, assumed over them an 

 authority unwarrantable and oppressive ; that they en- 

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