To the governor's inquiry for speci wrongs in the sale of lands, he go for an instance. This very it with his foot), was my land by

fications in regard to alleged " I have not far to replied :

ground under me (striking inheritance, and is taken from

me by fraud. When I say this ground, I mean all the land lying between Tohiccon creek and Wyoming, on the" river Susquehanna. I have not only been served so in this government, but the same thing has been done

me as to several tracts in New Jersey, over the river." When asked what he meant by u fraud," he gave instances of

to

forged deeds, under which lands were claimed which were never " " is fraud." " sold. This," said he, Also, when one chief has land beyond the river, and another chief has land on this side,

both bounded by rivers, mountains and springs, which cannot be

moved, and the proprietaries, ready to purchase lands, buy of one chief what belongs to another, this likewise is fraud." In regard to the lands on the Delaware, he said his people had never been

since the treaty of 1737. The boundary of the land then sold was to have gone only "as far as a man could walk in a day and a half from Nashamony creek," yet the person satisfied

He was, more bank of the river, winding

who measured the ground did not walk but ran. over, as they supposed, to follow the