or to the Southward described by His Majesty's order was not extended to the Northward of Oswegy Northward on a supposition the the Line to continued agreed to & have We river Kanhawa of Great concerning its course at determination any come to not having our of reason by that it was omitted Line to the much as the in as five and sixty hundred & the Congress held in one thousand seven very Towns & Northward became the most necessary of any for preventing encroachments at our ^Residences

We have given the line more favorably to Pensylvania for the reasons & considerations

mentioned in the Treaty, we have likewise continued

it

South to Cherokee River because the same

Bounds with the Southern Indians & that we have an undoubted is & we that River which makes the cession to His Majesty much more as South right to the Country as far advantageous than that proposed. Now therefore Know Ye that we the Sachems & Chiefs aforemendo declare it to be our true

tioned Native Indians or Proprietors of the Lands herein after described for & in behalf of ourselves & the whole of our Confederacy for the considerations hereinbefore mentioned and also for and in consideration of a valuable Present of the several Articles in use amongst Indians which together

with a large sum of money amount in the whole to the sum of Ten thousand four Hundred and sixty pounds seven shillings & three pence sterling to Us now delivered & paid by Sir William Johnson Baronet His Majesty's sole agent and superintendent of Indians affairs for the Northern department of America in the name and on behalf of our Sovereign Lord George the third by the Grace of God of Great Britain France & Ireland King Defender of the Faith the receipt whereof we do hereby the said Indians Have for us and our Heirs & Successors granted bargained sold acknowledge.