Letter of Croghan to the Governor, accompanying the foregoing treaty[1]
Pennsboro', June 10th, 1751.
May it please your Honour: Inclosed is a Copy of
the Treaty held on Ohio by your Honour's Instructions
on delivering your Honour's Present to the several Nations
of Indians Residing there. I hope your Honour on perusing
the Proceedings of the Treaty will find that I have
observed your Honour's Instructions in every Speech
that I delivered from your Honour. I took all the
Pains I could to make the Present have its full Force
and Weight with the Indians, and I have the Pleasure of
assuring your Honour that the Indians were all unanimously
well pleased at your Honour's Speeches, and
likewise acknowledged it was a great Present, and the
Chiefs of the Six Nations took great Pains with me in
dividing it amongst the other nations, that it might have
its full force with them, which I assure your Honour it
had, for every man I saw there was well satisfied with
his share of the Present; the Indians in general expressed
a high Satisfaction at having the Opportunity in the
Presence of Ioncœur of expressing their hearty Love
and Inclinations towards the English, and likewise to
assure your Honour what Contempt they had for the
French, which your Honour will see by the Speeches they
made. Ioncœur-Ioncœur has sent a Letter to your
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- ↑ This letter accompanied the preceding journal, and was written on Croghan's return to the settlements. Pennsbcro was the district in Cumberland County west of the Susquehanna, in which Croghan's home was at this time situated.—Ed.
