" 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^. Morris, & M^'. Peters, with the " Interpreter M^. Wiser, having repeatedly Acknowledged to me, " that tho the Land west of Allegany Mountains^ cross to Lake ^'^ Erie, was included in the Deed of 1754, that it was neither " Purchased nor Paid for, and which will appear by a Private " Conference in Mr. Peters' s hands at the time of signing.
Certainly the Proprietors are not apprized of the Fact here asserted, or they woud not have made an offer, to relinquish Land, they have never purchased nor allowed it to have been put in a Deed of Sale.
In answer to Sir William .lohnsons Opinion about the Government of Pennsylv^. raising Forces, and building Forts on the Susquahannah River.
" The proprietors say. this Insinuation is without any sort of " Foundation, as it never would have been attempted, had not the " Chiefs of the Indians living on Susquahannah & Delaware River, " on their own motion entirely, Desired they should be built at '• Shamokin and near Wyoming, for their own Security.