trade of that place the consequence whereof will be the depopulation of this Goverm1 for the people

must follow the trade.

Those Indians and the people of this Goverm 1 have been in continued peace

@ amity one with another these fifty years

And those Indians about forty years agoe did annex

GOV. DONGAN'S REPORT ON THE PROVINCE OF NEW-YORK. their lands to this Governm 1

@ have ever since constantly renewed the same with every Governor @ the English @ in particular to myself who have

that has been here both in the time of the Dutch

given them largely in consideration of their lands And I am certainly informed that they have declared they will go

@ live on y other side of the lake than be under any other Goverm on this than e

ours, Endeavors have been used (tho to noe purpose) to p'suade some of our Traders who speak the

language to goe and live upon the Susquehanna river tho I cannot yet find out by whom this has

been made.

The five Indian nations are the most warlike people in America, @ are a bulwark between us @ @ all other Indians they goe as far as the South Sea the North West passage @ Florida towarr. New England in their last warrwith the Indians had been ruined had not Sr Edmund Andros the French

sent some of those nations to their assistance, and indeed they are soe considerable that all the Indians in these parts of America are tributary to them.