They will only add, in answer to the last Paragraph, that they hope, private Property will ever be as much regarded, and as unwillingly given up by the Crown as Land in Provinces under His Majesty's immediate Government, and where the Lands are granted by virtue of his Commission.

The Proprietors now lay before their Lordships the Conferences held this Summer above mentioned, and are ready, as soon as they can be copied, to lay also Copies of every other Conference that nas been held between their Governors and Agents, & the several Nations of Indians, having nothing so much at heart, as to removethe least Jealousy of their Conduct, and approve themselves worthy of the Station they hold in Pennsylvania.

London, Decbr. 11th. 1756.

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EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM PROPRIETOR THOMAS PENN ES(i^. OF P2TH. FEBRUARY 1757

TO MR. RICHARD PETERS PROPRIETARY AGENT.

" I shall now write what my Time will allow me on the most '•important Point now under Considerationj that of tlie Dissatis- " faction of the Indians, and the Method we think proper shoud be " taken to remove all possible cause of it, if Impressions made by "wicked People can be effaced, as I had received your Letter " containing an account of the Complaints of the Delaware '• Indians. I informed Lord Halifax what I knew of these affairs, " and desired they m.ight be fully examined into by Sir William " Johnson at such Place as he shall appoint, and to which the " principal People of the Six Nations and those of the Indians " who pretend any claim or complain of ill Treatment shall agree " to come, and that we will appoint Commissioners to attenct that " Treaty, as a more indifferent Place and Person than our " Province or our Governor woud be more satisfactory to the " Publlck and more to our Honour.