You are long acquainted with his Artifices, and evil Conduct, and you have often assured us you had applied for Redress ; but whatever is the Reason, we never yet Obtained any Satisfaction, and we begin to be doubtful whether the English will afford it to us, for which reason we are driven to the necessity of mentioning our Grievances to you in the Presence of the whole

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SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON. 1005

Confederacy, that they who know our Rank, may espouse our Cause, as it is their duty to do, and convince the English that we' have tiriends, and deserve Attention.

Brother -- I will not take up your time with telling you, & your Brothers here present, the many Artifices he has made use of to Cheat us of our Lands, and to create Divisions among ourselves. I shall only mention his last actions. This evil Spirit, last Winter by his Cunning, seduced one of our foolish young fFellows to Steal away with him to England, where he exposed him for a shew, and Cheated him out of his Money. Klock has since Stolen home like a Rogue as he went out, and when we had notice of it, and applied to him to sign the Release, (which all the rest did) of the Lands w'^^ he Stole, he appointed a time for it, but when we came to his House, and brought a Justice of Peace to be present, he refused Admittance to him & us, and has since ran away, and propagated a Story that some of us threatened his Life. It is true.