A Belt Brother Warraghiiyagee We Rejoice that we See the Fire burn pure where it should do, the Tree of Shelter look Strong and flourishing, & you may depend upon our quenching that False Fire at Swegachey, and doeing all we can to recall our Brothers, too often seduced that way. tho we did not conceive we had done so much amiss in goeing thither, when we observe that you White People pray, md we have no nearer place to learn to pray, &, have our Children babtized than that, however as you insist upon it, we will not go that Way nor be any more divided, I must now say it is not with our Consent that the French have committed any Hostilities at Ohio, We dont know what you Christians English & French together intend, we are so Hemmed in by Both, that we have hardly a Hunting place left, in a little while if we find a Bear in a Tree there will imediately appear an Owner of the Land to Challenge the Property, and hinder us from killing it which is our lively hood, We are so perplexed between both, that we hardly know what to say or think. A Belt --

SIB. WILLIAM JOHNSON. 639

Brother Warraghiiyagee. In behalf of our Bretheren of this Castle of Onondaga, 1 am to say, that we shall hereafter transmit to our Bretheren the English, whatever we hear of Consequence Invariable «St directly, according to the Old Custom.

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