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DELAWARE COUNTY. 23 larly at Albany, where it was received with a spirit of marked resentment. Trade with the Indians being their only support, any attempt to divert it away would naturally excite their indignation, and they accordingly exerted themselves to frus- trate the plans of the designing Quaker. The territory in question was claimed by the Cayugas and Onondagas, who had four years before conveyed it by promise to the Grovernor of New York, who at this particular crisis^ convened the chiefs of these two nations in a treaty at Albany. The result of this conference was the confirmation of the original purchase, by a sealed instrument. Such is a brief sketch of the origin of the Susquehanna titles, and our limits will not in this place allow us to glance at the various controversies and conflicting claims that afterwards proved serious sources of agitation to the early settlers. The reader is referred to an interesting article in the Documentary History of the State, entitled Susquehanna Papers/' and also to a small volume published in 1796, by Croswell, in Catskill, entitled ^^Susquehanna Title Stated and Examined. Both articles are well worth a perusal. Having glanced at some of the prominent features that stamp the early history of our common country; and rendered a passing notice to the character of the Aborigines, who were the original proprietors of the soil, we are now prepared to enter upon a more limited field of discussion, and although, we may at times digress from our prescribed limits, it is to pre- serve unbroken and unimpaired the common chain that con- nects us with the past.