hours' walk, the proprietors have, contrary to agreement or bar gain, taken in more lands than they ought to have done, and I therefore now desire that you lands that belonged to others.

which you hold the land them be read in public and examined, that it may be known from what Indians you bought the lands you hold

will produce the writings and deeds by

and fully

let

What is fairly bought and

and how far your purchase extends.

paid for, I make no further demands about, but if any lands have been bought of Indians to whom they did not belong, and who

had no right to sell them, I expect satisfaction for those lands ; and if the proprietors have taken in more lands than they bought of true owners,

I expect likewise to be paid for that. But as the persons to whom the proprietors have sold those lands may

which of right belong to me, have made some settlements, I 1(1

At this council Teedyuscung insisted upon having a secretary of his own selec-

He was Philadelphia, was appointed. afterwards secretary to the Continental

to take down the proThe ceedings in behalf of the Indians, demand was considered extraordinary and

years.

tion appointed,

was opposed by Governor Denny. Teedyuscung persisted in his demand, and it was finally acceded to. Charles Thompson, master of. the free

Quaker School in

congress, and filled that station for many He died in 1824, aged 94 years,

full

of honors.