The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I — Passage 56 (part 2)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] 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 suf-ficiently understands The Proprietors say, that as the Six Nations are not well satisfied with the sale of those lands on