Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. II
Croghan s House, and told M"^, Peters, he was sent down from Ohio' to enquire about the Purchase, they had heard the Governor had made, on the East side of Susquahannah, the year before from the Onandago Council, and said, they were entitled to part of the Goods, paid for those Lands, as well as the Onandago Council, but ihey had received no Part -- That they were come down, to desire the Governor, to Purchase no more Lands without givmg them notice, and desired the Governor might send that Belt of Wampum to the Onandago Council, and let them know what the Ohio Indians*had said on the Head. Gave a large Belt.
The Indians, of the Six Nations, who were settled on the Ohio, were so Dissatisfied, with the Albany Purchase, made by the Proprietary Agents, and saw such bad Consequences arising from it, that they left the Ohio, and returned to their own Country.
In a Speech of the Six Nations, at a Publick Meeting, with Sir William Johnson on the 3^. July 1755. . . . They said
" Brother -- You desire us to unite, and live together, and " draw all our Allies near us, but we shall have no Land left, either, " for ourselves, or them, for your People, when they buy, a small " Piece of Land of us, by Stealing they make it large. We desire " such things may not be done, and that your People may not "be suffered to buy any more of our Land. Some time it's " bought of Two Men, who' are not the proper owners of it.