The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I — Passage 51
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] 264 PAPERS RELATING TO THE SUSQUEHANNAH RIVER. That Penn's people may not settle under the Susquehannah River. They have putt themselves under the King and give two Deer Skins for the King to write upon them, and put a great read Seale to them, that they put all their lands under His Maty an(j under no other Government then New Yorke. They desire these proposalls may be sent to the King with a Belt of Wampum peeg and another small Belt for the Duke of York. And they give Col. Dungan a Beaver to send over this Proposall. And my Lord Effingham is desired to take notice that Penn's agents would have bought the Sus-quehanna River of them, but they would not, but fastened it to the government of New York. That being a free people uniting themselves to the English, it may be in their power to give their land to what Sachini they please. PROPOSITION OR ORATION