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

come away, and quit surveying." In the Spring of 1756. Governour Morris sent several messages with Belts and strings of Wampum

by an Onondaga Indian to the Five Nations, amongst which is the following just and remarkable Confession.

" That he found by woful experience that making purchases of Lands was the cause of much blood

having been shed, he was determined therefore to buy no more." As a Confirmation of Sir William Johnsons said opinion he refers himself to the following extract

from Margaret Williams deposition who was a prisoner amongst the Delaware Indians, sworn before

him the 8 th day of September 1756. " The said Margaret says she often heard the Indians say and declare most solemnly they never would leave off killing the English as long as there was an Englishman living on their lands that they

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PAPERS RELATING TO THE SUSQUEHANNAH RIVER.

were determined to drive them all off their lands, naming Minisinck almost to the North River East, (in the provinces of New York & Jersey) also Bethlehem and the lands in parallel to it West which the English cheated them out of."