Penn has by this Offer expressed for Your Majesty's Service, which in the present Exigency of Affairs certainly calls for every degree of Support and Encouragement which can be given to it ; But as the Lands intended to be granted are said in general to lie to the Westward of the Allegany Mountains, We are apprehensive, that the proposed Settlement may comprehend within it part of those Lands (being sixty Miles from the Lakes into the Country) which the six Nations of Indians, by a solemn Deed in 1726, surrendered to the Crown of Great Britain to be protected and defended for their Use as hunting Lands ; And m the quiet Possession of which, Yoar Majesty, in your Instructions to S'". Charles Hardy, Your Governor of New York, has directed him to give them the strongest assurances of your Royal Resolution to protect and defend thera, forbidding him upon any pretence whatever to grant Lands to any Person within the Limits described in the said Deed, but on the contrary to use his utmost Endeavours to prevent the making any Settlement within the same.

In order to remove this objection, by shewing that the Six Nations had voluntarily and fairly sold and convey'd to him all their Eight and Title to the Lands now offered to be granted, M^".

SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON. 705

Penn (by whom We have been attended upon this Occasion) produced to us a Treaty concluded by his Agents with the sachems of all the said Nations at Albany in July 1754, In which Treaty We fin'd a Deed whereby the said Nations, for the Consideration therein mentioned, convey to the Proprietaries of Pennsyhania all the Lands lying within that Province, bounded and limited as follows, viz*. " beginning at the Kittochtinny or " blue Hills on the West Bank of Susquehannah River, and thence " by the said River to a mile above the mouth of a certain Creek " call'd Kayarondinhagh, thence North West and by West, as far "as the said Province of Pennsylvania extends to its Western " Line or Boundary, thence along the said Western Line or " Boundary to the South Line or Boundary of the said Province, " thence by the said South Line to the South side of the said " Hills, along the said Hills to the place of beginning."