We know the ffrench by their Coats and the other Christians by

their habitts & if we should take their goods from them, it

would create trouble or warre & therefor

deliver the same againe.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM G0V R DONGAN TO M. DE DENONVILLE, DATED 31 OCTBr 1687. [

Sir, I doe

not take the King

Lond. Doc. VI. ]

my Master's right to the five nations on this side of the lake from

Mons r de la Barr, but from our records which demonstrates that these five nations has been in a free and brotherly correspondence from the first Settlement of this towne, and further they have submitted themselves, there country and conquests to the Dutch in their time and to the Kinge of England since this Colonie came under His Majes ties obedience, so that the King haveing given a Pattent to

M W m Penn of a tract of land in which there conquest land uppon the Susquehana River was r

Since all this they came to me in the presents of the Lord Effingham now Gov r of Virginia presentinge two dorst [dressed?] Deerskins desiringe me to send them to the Kinge

included in the grant,

that a red broad seale might be affixed to them, that, that part of Susquehanna river might be annexed to this Collony haveing some of their friends livinge there.

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PAPERS RELATING TO THE SUSQUEHANNAH RIVER.

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