Journals of Conrad Weiser (1748), George Croghan (1750-1765), Christian Frederick Post (1758), and Thomas Morris (1764)Croghan, George
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Journals of Conrad Weiser (1748), George Croghan (1750-1765), Christian Frederick Post (1758), and Thomas Morris (1764)
Croghan, George
Mississippi River Valley -- Description and travel; United States -- Description and travel; West (U.S.) -- Description and travel
May the 26th.—A Dunkar from the Colony of Virginia came to the Log’s Town
and requested Liberty of the Six Nation Chiefs to make [a settlement]
on the River Yogh-yo-gaine a branch of Ohio, to which the Indians made
answer that it was not in their Power to dispose of Lands; that he must
apply to the Council at Onondago, and further told him that he did not
take a right method, for he should be first recommended by their Brother
the Governor of Pennsylvania, with whom all Publick Business of that sort
must be transacted before he need expect to succeed.[25]
May the 27th.—Mr Montour and I had a Conference with the Chiefs of the
Six Nations, when it was agreed upon that the following Speeches should
be made to the Delawares, Shawonese, Owendatts and Twightwees, when the
Provincial Present should be delivered them in the Name of the Honourable
James Hamilton, Esquire, Lieutenant Governor and Commander-in-Chief of
the Province of Pennsylvania, and Counties of New Castle, Kent, and
Sussex, on Delaware, in Conjunction with the Chiefs of the Six United
Nations On Ohio:
A TREATY WITH THE INDIANS OF THE SIX NATIONS, DELAWARES, SHAWONESE,
OWENDATTS AND TWIGHTWEES.
IN THE LOG’S TOWN ON OHIO,
Thursday the 28th May, 1751.
PRESENT:
Thomas Kinton,
Samuel Cuzzens,
Jacob Pyatt,
John Owens,
Thomas Ward,
Joseph Nelson,
James Brown,
Dennis Sullavan,
Paul Pearce,
Caleb Lamb,
Indian Traders.
The Deputies of the Six Nations, Delawares, Shawonese, Owendatts,
and Twightwees; Mr. Andrew Montour, Interpreter for the Province of
Pennsylvania; Toanshiscoe, Interpreter for the Six Nations.
George Croghan made the following Speech to the several Nations, when
they were met in Council, in the Name of the Honourable James Hamilton,
Esquire, Governor of the Province of Pennsylvania:
“FRIENDS AND BRETHREN:—I am sent here by your Brother the Governor of
Pennsylvania with this Present of Goods to renew the Friendship so long
subsisting between Us, and I present you these four strings of Wampum to
clear your Minds and open your Eyes and Ears that you may see the Sun
clear, and hear what your Brother is going to say to you.”—Gave 4 Strings
of Wampum.
A Speech delivered the Delawares—in answer to the Speech they sent by Mr.
Weiser three Years ago to his Honour the Governor to acquaint him of the
Death of their Chief, King Oulamopess[26]—by George Croghan:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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