Sir William Johnson gave it as his opinion that the hostilities which Pensilvania had suffered from

some of the Indians living on the Susquehanna did in some measure arise from the large purchase made by the Governour two years ago. This is the point to be proved and more then this it is apprehended will be proved by the following Quotations from authentick Records & Papers. "Before the year 1742 the Delaware Indians complained that they were defrauded out of some lands or not paid for them.

"It is well known that the purchase made at Albany in 1754 gave a great uneasiness to the Susquehana Indians and from the time the County Surveyor began to survey Juniatta, and up the Susquehana The Delewars, Shawanese and Nanticokes then settled on the River began to remove farther back, some to Tirjahoga some to Ohio. :

" The Ohio Indians at a Meeting with the defeat of Col

Washington asked

M Wiser (the Pensilvania Interpreter) at Aughwick, after r

M Wiser how those Lands came to be sold. r

He said in answer

that the Six Nations had only made over their right of sale, and taken an earnest piece,

when the lands came to be settled, that they should receive a consideration for them.

and that

At the same

time John Schecelany, a Deleware Indian, burned some houses that were built on Penns creek (below Shamokin on the West side) and said there should be no plantations made on their hunting grounds, and all the Indians at Shamokin seemed very uneasie, and indeed obliged the Surveyor to