The Proprietors cannot with justice Vindicate the Conduct of the Province of Pennsylvania, towards the Indians, as the Government has not taken one Step to Preserve his Majestys Interest, with those Indians, since the French first attempted to settle on the Ohio', as will Appear by the Abstracts from 'my Journals, and more at large on their own Records.

Withrespectto the Purchassesin 1754 at Albany, itiswell known, that it gave great uneasiness, both to the Susquehannah Indians, and Ohio Indians of the diffirent Nations, and from the time the County Surveyor, begaivto Survey on Junata, and up Susquehannah, the

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DelewaySjShannas, Nanteohes, and all the Indians then settled on the River, began to Remove furtherback, some to Diohogo, others to Ohio. The Six Nations drew themselves oi\\ to their own Country foreseeing some bad Consequence -- The Ohio Indians at a meeting with M'" Wiser, the Interpretar of the Province at Angwhich after the Defeat of Col' Washington asked M^ Wiser, how them Lands came to be sold; he said in answer that the Six Nations, had only made Over their Right of Sale, and taken a Earnest Piece, and that when the Lands Came to be Settled, that they should Receive a Consideration for them ; at the same time Johney Shecelemy Burnt some Houses that was built on Penns Creek, and said their should be no Plantations made on Their Hunting Grounds, and all the Indians at Shomockin Seemed very uneasie, and indeed Obhged the Surveyors to come away, and quit Surveying.