10 HISTORY OF part thereof, To have and to hold the whole lands and premi- ses hereby granted, bargained, sold, released, and confirmed as aforesaid, with the hereditaments and appurtenances there- unto belonging, under the reservations made in the Treaty unto our said Sovereign Lord, King George the Third, his heirs and successors, to and for his and their own proper use and behoof for ever. In witness whereof, we, the Chiefs of the Confederacy, have hereunto set our marks and seals, at Fort Stanwix, the fifth day of November, one thousand seven hundred and sixty-eight, in the ninth year of His Majesty's reign. For the Mohawks. TYOPtHANSERE ALS ABRAHAM, [l. s.] For the Oneidas. CANAGHAGUIESON, [l. s.] For the Tuscaroras. SEGUAREESERA, [l. s.] For the Onondagas. OTSINOGHIYATA ALS BUNT, [l. s.] For the Cayugas. TEGAAIA, [L. s.] For the Senecas, GUARTOAX, [l. s.] Sealed aud delivered and the conside- ration paid in the presence of Wm. Franklin, Governor of New Jersey. Fre. Smyth, Chief Justice of New Jersey. Thomas Walker, Commissioner for Virginia. Richard Peters, | Of the Council of " James Tilghman, J Pennsylvania. The territory ceded b:y this treaty to the English crown, was far more extensive than was then known or supposed. The western line of the present county of Delaware, was the
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