and that none hath any land from them and they are resolved never to sell or give them any or any others except the people of this Governm 1 that they were sent for by the Goverm of Canada who told them that they should make a peace with all the Indians and that the Govern took their axe and threw it into the water, but did not bury it because if it had bin buried it might have been 1,

taken up again ; and that nothing shall com to their ears but they will acquaint

this Governm 1

with

and expect the same from this Government. They allso say the Govern 1 of Canada promised them to have free passage upon all the Rivers and Creeks and said they should suffer all other Indians to have the same & the Govern took them os his

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children and told them they should be all of the ffrench Religion. That all this land is under the Governm* of his R n High ss that there has been

som Strangers at Albany to buy the Susquehannah River, but they have considered and will not sell it to them except by the particular leave of his Hono r .

PAPERS RELATING TO THE SUSQUEHANNAH RIVER.

The Govern

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desired

them to make up the differences amongst themselves about Susquehanna and that then he

River in a civil and peaceable way, that being don to send word to the Governo

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