" situate between

Delaware and Sus'quehanna, from Duck creek to the mountains on this side Lechay, which lands had been granted by their In 1728, he had removed "from ancestors to William Penn."

APPENDIX.

Conrad Weisser, the Indian Indians last year interpreter, writes in 1747: "The Delaware intended to visit Philadelphia, but were prevented by ALLUM on Delaware

to

Shamokin."

MAPEES' sickness, who is still alive, but not able to stir. will come down this year,

some time after harvest.

relations, and he will hear of

MAPEES has no successor in his none so long as he meddle in the affair.

is

They ALLUM-

alive, and none of the z

Indians care to

advises that the

government him up by their authority, that at this critical time there might be a man to apply to, since ALLUMMAPEES has lost his senses and is inca should

Shikellimy

name ALLUMMAPEES' successor, and

set

In 1747, the old chief took part in pable of doing anything." a treaty with the Moravians concerning the erection of a smithy What In the fall of that year he deceased. at their town.

may have been in his earlier years, he was but little more than an intemperate imbecile at the time of his death. his Weisser writes " ALLUMMAPEES would have ever he

resigned

:

crown before now, but treasure (that

is

as

he had the keeping of the public

to say of the council-bag), consisting of belts

of wampum, for which he buys liquor, and has been drunk for these two or three years almost constantly, it is thought he won't die so long as there is one single