" 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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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"

Certainly the proprietors are not apprized of the fact here asserted, or they would not have made an otter to relinquish Land they have never purchased, nor allowed it to have been put in a deed of sale.

In answer to Sir William Johnson's opinion about the Government of Pensilvania raising Forces

and building Forts on the Susquehana River |

Vol. 1.

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PAPERS RELATING TO THE SUSQUEHANNAH RIVER.

" The Proprietors say this Insinuation is without any sort of Foundation, as it never would have

been attempted had not the Chiefs of the Indians living on the Susquehannah and Delaware River on their own Motion entirely desired they should be built at Shamokin and near "Wyoming for their own security.