Before the year 1742, the Delaways complained that they were defrauded out of some Lands, or not Paid for them, which will appear by the Treaty, which Governor Thomas held with the Six Nations, at Philadelphia in June & July 1742; Where Governor Thomas in his speech to the Six Nations (in Page 17) tells them that a Branch of the Delaways Indians gave that Province some disturbances, on account of Lands, which the Proprietors had purchased 55 years before, and paid their ancestors, for which appeared by a Deed, then on the Table, and Requested that the Six Nations should remove the Deleways, out of the Forks of Delaware, which the Six Nations did, at the Request of Governor Thomas, and Plac'd them at Weoman & Juniata, the one on the East side Susquehannah, and the other, on the West side of said

• SIR. WILLIAM JOHNSON. 757

River, and gave them, and the Shannas, with their own People, that were Settled at Shornoken, all the Lands, west of the blue Hills for their hunting Ground, on both Sides Susquehannah River --

Complaints further made by Six JYatlons in Treaty at La?icaster pages 21,28,29.

In the year 1749, Governor Hamilton made a Purchase, for the Proprietors, on the East side Susquehannah, then the Six Nations complained, that the People of Pennsylvania, was Incroaching on their Lands on the West side Susquehannah, and desired the Governor might turn them oiF, as those lands, w^ere the hunting Ground of the Susquehannah Indians --