" Tell our Brother further, that since we took the Hatchet out " of the hands of the Delawares and Shawaneese, they have told "us there is an Army of the English, coming against them (they " mean the Provincial Troops of Pennsyl*. imder Colonel Clapham,) " and that they think it unreasonable, and unnatural for us to hold " them in our Arms, and Prevent their defending themselves, when " People are just on their Backs, to destroy them.

" We are mformed the English are building a Fort at Shamokin. " We can't comprehend the method of making Warr, which is " made use of, by our Bretheren the English ; When we goe to " War, our manner is, to destroy a Nation, theres an "end of it. " But the English Chiefly regard building Forts, which looks, as if " tlieir only Scheme was to take Possession of the Lands.

Here is an evident proof of the Jealousy which the Pennsylvania Levies, and Fort building occasioned, and a Strong hint of the ends intended by them, as it stood in the minds of the Indians.

Sir William Johnson", well knowing how extreamly tender, the Indians in General are with regard to Forts, near to their Country, or hunting Grounds, and naturally judging a Body of armed Men to support as it were the Building of those, at a time, & in Places, Yv'here he had many reasons to believe the Neighbouring Indians (as it hath since fully appeared) were dissatisfied with the Government on the score of Lands, and encroaching by their Purchases, on their hunting Grounds, and crouding too ne^r upoa