Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. II
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 --
At the same time They desired, by a string of Wompum that their Bretherans might Pay the Connays for that Land, which tlicir Town stood on, in Dunigau, as they had left it, and Settled on Susquehannah. and they asserted that them Lands, was Reserved (when they sold the adjoining Lands to the Proprietors) for the use of the Connays --
In the year 1750, a Six Nation Sacheme from Ohio, with several Principal Men, with him ; Both, Shannas and Dellaways, came to my House, where they met the Governor's Secretary of the Province, just Returned from Dispossessing the People, who had made Settlements, on Junitia : The Lands Complained of, by the Six Nations the year before --
Connageriwa, the principal Man of this Deputation, of Indians from Ohio, told M^' Peters, that he was sent down from Ohio, to inquire about a Purchase, they had heard, the Governor had made, on the East side of Susquehannah, the year before, from the Onandago Counsel and said they were Intitled to part of the Goods Paid for those Lands, as well as the Onandago Counsel, but that they had Received no Part ; That they were come Down to desire the Governor to Purchase no More Lands, without giving them Notice, and desired the Governor might send that Belt of Wompum to the Onandago Counsel, and let them Know what the Ohio Indians had said, on that Head -- gave a large Belt --