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 .

knowledge tell how far the purchase extends, but he hath in his possession a Report of several Indian Transactions, relative to the Government of Pensilvania signed by George Croghan Esq who was for r Croghan says several years employed as an Indian Agent by that Government, in which Report

as follows

:

" I never understood from any of the Six Nations that they deemed the Lands west of the Susquehana as a purchase, but rather as a deed of Trust and rec' d 1000 Dollars as an Earnest Price and looked on it that when the lands came to be settled they should receive the Consideration and the Commissioners who were sent from Pensilvania to make that purchase at Albany in 1754, viz 4

NorriB &

M Peters, with the Interpreter M Wiser, have repeatedly acknowledged to me, that r

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the.

Land West of Allegany Mountains cross to Lake Erie was included in the deed of 1754, that it was neither purchased nor paid for, and which will appear by a private Conference in Mr. Peter's hand at the time of signing"