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3. You are to apply yo^r Self to the Governor of New Yorke,
and rendring him thankes for the civilities he hath shewn to
this his Lordshipps Governm^t to desire him to assist y^u in pro-
curing a treaty for y^u with the s^d Cinnigo Indians, and the
Susquesahannohs if that there be such a Nation.
4. When y^u shall come to a treaty with the Cinnigos, y^u are
to lett them know, that we had noe knowledge of them but by
the Susquesahannohs Indians reports: that they from time to
time tould us that the injuries we reed: in our goods, and the
murd^re of our people were all perpetrated by the Cinnigos,
that we afterwards found out that those very murd^re w^ch the
Susquesahannohs fathered upon the Cinnigos were committed
by the Susq^s themselves, and that that was the reall cause of
the warr between us, and the injury to us was the greater be-
cause the Susq^s by the articles of peace between us were
obliged to give us Twenty daies warning of their Intentions to
warr if at any time they grew weary of the peace with us, w^ch
notwithstanding they in an open hostile manner with the Maj^r
part of their fforce, and some (if not all) of their great men
present assaulted the house of Randall Hanson, standing within
three miles of their ffort, and there continued in fight one whole
day, after all w^ch they had the confidence to endeavour to per-
suade us it was the Cinnigos that Committed the outrage.
5. In the Articles of Peace between the said Cinigos and
Susq^s (if yett the case be in a capacity to treat by themselves)
you must include the Poscattoway Indians by name, and all our
other low land Indians in amity with us in generall tearmes,
because the Publick faith is given to the Pascattoway that we
will include them in our peace with the Northern Indians, and
we are never safe from the Northern Indians as long as they
have any pretence of warr with our ffriend Indians, nor from
our Neighbo^r Indians as long as they can have any colo^r of a
warr to hide their owne faults and lay it upon their Enemies.
6. Since this last Instruction may proove the harder part of
the negotiation and that the Northern Indians may perhapps
be unwilling to condescend to it from some injuries done by
our neighbours to them unknowne to us, You are (in case they
stick much at that article) to enquire into the true causes of
their quarrell and to make the Cinnigos and other Indians
Satisfaction in the name of the Pascattoway's though we our-
selves be at the charge of it, so to settle our own peace,
nothing being so prejudiciall to us as a warr, nothing more to
the decreaseing of his Ma^ties Customs then such detractions as
take the people from planting.
7. Ffor the rest of the Articles of the peace they must be left
most to yo^r owne discretion, depending upon the information
y^u shall receive in yo^r voiage of the state of affaires; if you find

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