" 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.
In the Spring 1756, Governor Morris sent severall Messages, with Belts, and Strings of Wompum, by an Onandaga Indian, to the Five Nations, amongst which is the following just and remarkable Confession.
" That he found by woful Experience, that making Purchases " of Lands, was the Cause of much Blood having been shed, he " w^as determined therefore, to buy no more," .... As a Confirmation of Sir William Johnson's said Opinion he reifers himself, to the following extract from Margaret Williams's Deposition, who was a Prisoner amongst the Delaware Indians, sworn before him the 8th. day of December 1756--
" The said Margarett says, she often heard the Indians say & " declare most solemnly they never would leave off killing the " English as long as there was an Englishman living on their "Lands -- that they were detirmined to drive them all off their *' Lands, naming Minisink almost to the North River East (in the