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.

I suffer no Christians to converse with them

any where but at Albany @ that not without my Since I came here the people of Boston have sent them presents in acknouledgement of their favor @ friendship. @ I was forc't to goe with my Lord Efiingham to bury his hatchet and theirs which is license

their way of making a peace I have sent herewith what the nations that

conquered the Susquehannas desired of the

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King in my Lord Effingham's presence and I believe it to be of dangerous consequence if denyed This Governm has always been and still is at a great charge to keep them peaceable @ annexed to this government which is of that moment that upon any occasion I can have three or four thousand «ai'and present-

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of their men at a call.

cannot believe that ever it was the King's intention to grant away soe considerable a part of this

government which has been so long appropriated to it @ even the people think it as a part for the Beaver