between the

Kenawha and Monongahela ; the proprietaries of Pennsylvania, one of the Wyoming lands, and George Croghan one confirma tory of two grants which the Indians had given him, in 1766, stories as make them believe the English have nothing so much at heart The as the extirpation of all savages. apparent design of the Six Nations is, to keep us at war with all savages but themselves, that they may be employed as

occupied by the English along the Monongahela, and the Red Stone creek, a This treaty was concluded Nov. 5th, 1768. By its terms all the lands north

mediators between us and them, at a continuation of expense, too often and too heavily felt, the sweets of which they will never forget nor lose sight of, if they That of the Shacan possibly avoid it.

line to the nearest fork of the west branch

wanoes and Delawares is to live on killing and captivating and plundering the people

ware into

such

inhabiting the frontiers ; long experience has shown them they grow richer, and live better thereby, than

beasts."

by hunting wild

Colonial History, vn, 690.

The reference is to lands then being

and west of the Ohio and Alleghany rivers to

Kittaning ; thence in a direct

of the Susquehanna ; thence, following that stream through the Alleghanies, by the way of Burnett's Hills and the eastern branch of the Susquehanna and the Dela-

New York, to a line parallel

with Nonaderha creek, and thence north to Wood creek, east of Oneida lake was recognized as the territorial domain of the Six Nations, Lcnapes, Sha<wanocs y etc. Colonial History , vm, 135.