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that Every cask of Wisky shall be sold to you for five Books in your
towns. and if the traders offer to sell wisky to you and will not let
you have it at that price, you may take it from him and Drink
it for nothing.
Gave a belt.
Brethern here is one of the traydors, whom you Know to be a very
sober and honest man, he has been Robbed out of the value of 300 books
and you all know by whome let therefore satisfaction be made
to the Trader.
Gave a string of Wampum
Brethern I Have no more to say.
I Delivered the goods to them, having Divided them Before into
Five shares. gave a share to the sinikers. a share to the Cajuckers
Onontagers oneidas an mohacks. the third Share to the Delawares
the fourth to the wantats. Zisagechroanu and Mahickens; the
fifth to the Shawanos.
the Indians Signified great Satisfaction and joy and were well
pleased with the Cessation of arms. the rainy weather hastened them
away with the Goods into some houses, and night Coming on
the 18 the speech was delivered to the Delawares in their own Language and
also to the Shawanos in their language by Andrew Montour in my
Present and some of the tradors. I acquainted the Indians I was
Resolved to leave them tomorrow and return homewards.
the 19 Scayhuhady, Tanughrishon and Oniadagarehra, with a few more
came to my lodging and spoke to the following purport.
Brother onas, we Desire you will hear what we are going to say to you
in behalf of all the Indians on ohio, their Deputies have sent us to you
we have heard what you have said to us and we return you many
thanks for the Kindness in Informing us of what passed bettween
the King of great brittain and the french King In Perticular we
Return your many thanks for the large presents, the same we do
to our brother Assariquoh who joined our brother onas in making
us a present our bretheren have indeed tied our hearts to theirs
we at present Can but Return thanks with an Empty hand
till another opportunity serves to Do it sufficiently. we must
Call a great Counsl and Do Every thing Regular in the mean
time look upon us as your true brethern.
The old Sinicker Queen above mentioned, came to inform me that sometime ago she had sent a string of wampum of three fathom to Philadelphia by James Dunnings, to desire her bretheren would send her up a cask of powder & some small shot to enable her to send out the Indian boys to kill turkies & other fowls for her, whilst the men are gone to war against the French, that they may not be starved. I told her I had heard nothing of the message, but if she had told me of it before I parted with all the powder & lead, I could have let her have some; & promised I would make inquiry, perhaps the messenger had lost it on the way to Philadelphia. Gave her a shirt, a Dutch wooden