& the sundry Indians therein mentioned, & which Sir William Johnson transmits herewith to the Right Honorable the Lords of Trade puts beyond dispute and demonstrates the Truth of what Sir

William Johnson gave as his opinion in his aforesaid letter to the Lords of Trade and he apprehends it

doth very fully evidence the conclusions of belief he then drew from that opinion. Lastly Sir William Johnson refers himself to the following Extract from the examination of John

Morris of Lancaster County,

who was taken by, and made his escape from, the Delaware Indians

August 1757. The Examinant says he often heard the Delawares say that the reason of their quarrelling with and killing the English in that part of the country was on account of their lands which the people of Pensilvania Government cheated them out of, and drove them from their settlement at Shamokin by crowding upon them, and by that means spoiled their hunting and that the people of Minisinck used to make the Indians always drunk whenever they traded with them and then cheated them out of their furs and skins, also wronged them with regard to their lands. This he has heard from many of the chief and oldest men amongst them both in the English and Delaware Language which he sufsworn before him

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ficiently understands

The Proprietors say, that as the Six Nations are not well satisfied with the sale of those lands on the Ohio, they are willing to waive that part of the Treaty provided &c a As Sir William Johnson has never seen the deed of sale for the Albany purchase, he cannot to his .