Papers Relating to an Act of the Assembly of the Province of New-York: For encouragement of the Indian trade, &c. and for prohibiting the selling of Indian goods to the French, viz. of CanadaGreat Britain. Board of Trade
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Papers Relating to an Act of the Assembly of the Province of New-York: For encouragement of the Indian trade, &c. and for prohibiting the selling of Indian goods to the French, viz. of Canada
Great Britain. Board of Trade
Fur trade -- New York (State); Indians of North America -- Commerce; Iroquois Indians; New York (State) -- Commerce -- History; New York (State) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Canestogo _Indians that speak the_ Onayiut's _Language_.
_Tior Haasery_, Chief.
_Tanigh wackerau_,
_Karha Cawyiat_,
_Kayen quily quo_.
C A N O Y I A S, _or_ N A N T I K O K E S, _of_ Canestogo.
_Des-seheg_,
_Ichqua que heck_,
_Quesamaag_,
_Ayiok-ius_.
D E L A W A R E S _of_ Shamokin.
_Olumapies_, }
_Lingehanoah_, } Chiefs.
_Kelly macquan_,
_Quitie-yquont_,
_Pishquiton_,
_Nena chy haut_.
D E L A W A R E S _from the_ Forks.
_Onutpe_, }
_Lawye quohwon_, alias _Nutimus_, } Chiefs.
_Toweghkappy_.
_Cornel. Spring_, and others.
C o n r a d W e i s e r, C o r n e l i u s S p r i n g, _Interpreters_.
And a great Number of the Inhabitants of _Philadelphia_.
The Governor having commanded Silence, spoke as follows:
'_Friends and Brethren of the Six Nations_,
'Six Years ago a Number of your Chiefs obliged us with a Visit,
when they agreed on Behalf of your Nations, to the Release of
certain Lands on both Sides the River _Sasquehannah_, to the
Southward of the _Endless-Mountains_, and within the Limits and
Bounds of the King's Grant of this Province. In Consideration of
which, a certain Quantity of Goods was agreed on, and delivered
as a full Satisfaction for the said Lands, lying on the Eastern
Side of the said River: And for the Lands on the Western Side of
the said River, you desired the Payment should be deferr'd till
another Opportunity. These Goods, which are exactly the same in
Quantity, as those you received the last Time the Chiefs of your
Nations were here, have been ready a considerable Time, and kept
in Expectation of your coming for them: And now you are come
down, fully impowered by your respective Councils to receive
them, we are well pleased to deliver them; leaving it to you to
make a fair and equal Division of them amongst yourselves. We
are sorry for the Absence of our Brethren the _Senecas_, and
much more so, that it should be owing to their Distress at Home
by a Famine that rages in their Country:--A Famine so great,
that you tell us a Father has been obliged to sacrifice one Part
of his Family, even his own Children, for the Support and
Preservation of himself, and the other Part.--We heartily
commiserate their Condition, and do not doubt but you will do
them fair and ample Justice in the Disposal of their Part of the
Goods, in such Manner as they have instructed you. You shall now
hear the List of the Goods read to you.'
Here, by the Governor's Order, the List of the Goods was read over,
_viz_.
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