'• The Examinant says he often heard the Delawares say, that " the reason of their Quarreling with & killing the English in that " part of the Country, was on account of their Lands which the " People of Pensilvania Government cheated them out of, and " drove them from their Settlement at Shamokin by crouding " upon them, and by that means spoiled their Hunting, and that " the People of Minisink used to make the Indians always Drunk " whenever they traded with them, and then cheated th6m out of "their Fun'S & Skins, also wronged them with regard to their " Lands, this he has heard from many of the chief & oldest men " among them both in the English & the Delaware Language w^^. " he sufficiently understands."

VOL. 11. 48

754 MAKUSCRIPTS OF

The Proprietors say, that as the Six Nations are not well Sattisfied, with the Sale of those Lands, on the Ohio, they are willing to wave that part of the Treaty Provided &ca,.

As Sir William Johnson has never seen the Deed of Sale for the Albany Purchase, he cannot to his own knowledge tell how far the Purchase Extends, but he hath, in his Possession, a Report of severall Indian Transactions, relative to the Government of Pennsylvania, signed by George Croghan Esq. who was for severall years employed as an Indian Agent by that Government, in which Report Mr. Croghan says as follows --

" I never understood from any of the Six Nations, that they '• deemed the Lands West of Susquahannah, as a Purchase, but " rather as a Deed of trust, and received 1000 Dollars, as an " Earnest Price, and looked on it, that when the Lands came to be " settled, they should receive the Consideration, and the Commis- " sioners, who were sent from Pennsylvania to make that Purchase « at Albany in 1751, Viz^ M^.