drawing an additionall expence on the Government, and the Indians were neglected.[1]
At the time that the Secretary, the provincial Interpreter, with the Justice of Cumberland County and the Sheriff were ordered to dispossess the people settled on the unpurchased lands on the West side of Susquehannah, and on their return to my house, they met a deputation of the Ohio Indians, who told the Secretary that they had heard of a purchase that the Governor had made on the East side of Susquehannah, and said they were intitled to part of the goods paid for that purchase, but had received none, that they were come now to desire the Governor to purchase no more lands without first acquainting them, for that the lands belonged to them as well as to the Onondago Council; on which they delivered a Belt of Wampum, and desired that the Governor might send that Belt to Onondago to let them know that the Ohio Indians had made such a complaint.
In April 1751 the Governor sent me to Ohio with a
present of goods; the speeches were all wrote by the
Provincial Interpreter Mr Wiser. In one of the speeches
was warmly expressed that the Govr of Pennsylvania
would build a fort on the Ohio, to protect the Indians,
as well as the English Traders, from the insults of the
French. On the Governor perusing the speech he thought
it too strongly expressed, on which he ordered me not
to make it, but ordered me to sound the Chief of the
Indians on that head, to know whether it would be agreeable to them or not. Which orders I obeyed, and did in the presence of Mr Montour sound the Half King Scarioa-
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- ↑ For a copy of this treaty see Pennsylvania Colonial Records, v, pp. 522-525. In regard to the rejection thereof, note that the governor in the speech made to the Twigtwees says it is approved. See ante.—Ed.
