The Proprietors say. They cannot Conceive that the last Purchase made of Land, to the Westward of Susquehannah, could possibly be the Cause of the Hostilities committed by the Indians living on that River &ca.

Sir WiUiam Johnson gave it as his opinion, that the Hostilities which Pennsylv=i had suffered, from some of the Indians, Hving on the Susquahanah, did in some measure arise, from the large Purchase made by the Governor Two years ago.

This is the point to be proved, and more than this, it is apprehended will be proved by the following Quotations from Authantick Records, & papers.

752 MANUSCRIPTS OF

Proofs that In- " Beforc the year 1742 the Delaware Indians comties in Pfiisii- " plained that they were defrauded out of some Lands,

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some measure <• or not Paid for thcm.

arise Irom Albany Purclise " It is well known, that the Purchase made at Albany

" in 1754, gave great uneasiness to the Susquahannah Indians,

" & from the time the County Surveyor, began to Survey on

" Juniatta, and up the Susquahannah. The Delawares, Shawanese

" & Nanticokes, then settled on the River, began to remove farther

"back, some to Tiahogo, some to Ohio,"

" The Ohio Indians, at a meeting with M'". Wiser (the Pennsyl- "vania Interpretor) at Aughwick, after the defeat of Col'. "Washington asked M^. Wiser how those lands came to be sold. " he said in answer, that the Six Nations had only made over their " right of Sale, and taken an earnest Piece, and that when the " Lands came to be settled, that they should receive a Consideration " for them. At the same time John Shecelaney, a Delaware " Indian, burned some Houses, that were built on Pean's Creek " (below Shamokin on the West side) and said there should be " no Plantations made on their Hunting Grounds, and all the "Indians at Shamokin seemed very uneasie, and indeed obliged " the Surveyors to come away & quit Surveying.