All the foregoing is fact?, and can be Proved which I think is Sufficient to shew the World that the Purchases gave a general Discontent, to the Indians and I believe the Governments Conduct in immediately Surveying, and Opening an Office for those Lands at a time when the French was in Actual Possession, of the Ohio, will be thought by every, impartial judge, a very Imprudent Step, and sufficient to destroy, allhisMajestys Indian Interest,

" The Proprietaries say, as the Indians on the Contrary are not *' well satisfied, witli the sale of those Lands on the Ohio the " Proprietaries are willing to wave that part of the Treaty.

I cannot help remarking here, that I think the Proprietaries with great Justice should disclaim any Right to those Lands they ever had, except their Grant from the Crovt-n.

I never understood from any of the Six Nations that they deem'd the lands West of Susquahanna as a purchase, but rather as a Deed of Trust and received 1000 Dollars, as an Earnest piece and Loocked on it that when the Lands came to be settled, they should receive the Consideration, and the Commissioners who were sent from Pennsylvania to make that purchase at Albany in 1754. viz* M^' Norris and M^ Peters with the Interpreter M'' Wiser has repeatedly acknowledged to me, that tho' the Land West of AUegenla Mountains cross Ohio to Lake Erie, was included in the

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Deed of 1754. that it was neither purchased nor paid for, and which will appear by a private Conference in M'" Peters hands, at tne time of signing.