Pen keep all below that it would be sufficient for him the bounds below it being

conjectured to contain more than all England besides the louer Countys which

is

near upon

100 miles from the Cape up the river ; and in bredth more than 30 miles as is generally beleeved

To preserve the Beaver @ Peltry trade for this @ Albany and to be an encouragement to our I desire I may have order to erect a Campayne Fort upon Delaware River in 41

Beaver hunters

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minate.

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another upon the Susquehanna where his Maty shall think

Mr. Penns bounds

fit

shall ter-

And another at Oneigra near the great lake in the way where our people goe a Beaver

hunting or trading or any where else where I shall think convenient it being very necessary for the support of Trade, maintaining a correspondence with the further Indians,

@ in securing our right in

the country the French making a pretence as far as the Bay of Mexico, for which they have no other

argument than that they have had possession this twenty years by their fathers living so long among the Indians they have fathers still among the five nations aforementioned viz. the Maquaes, Sinicaes,

Cayouges, Oneides, and Onondagues

@ have converted many of them to the Christian Faith @ doe

their utmost to draw tliem to Canada, to which place there are already 6 or 700 retired

and more

have done my endeavours @ nave one ar so ^ * n " tnat * h ave prevailed with the Indians to consent to come back from § Indian* from