lesser Seale of our said Province of Maryland att our Citty of
St Maryes the Thirteenth day of June in the first yeare of our
Dominion over our said Province And in the yeare of our
Lord God One Thousand six hundred Seaventy & Six.
At a Counsell held at the Deputy Governours Sunday the
Sixth day of August 1676. Present
Thomas Notley Esqr Deputy Leivt & Depty Governour
Philip Calvert Esqr Chancellour
The Honble William Calvert Esqr Principall SecryCounsellors
Baker Brooke Esqr Surveyr Genll
Then were two letters One from Mr Stiles of the 22th of July
last and One from Capt Sibrey of the last of the same month
produced by the Deputy Leivtenant and read which said let-
ters were directed to the Honble Collonel Wharton (then)
Deputy Governour. Also the Deputy Leivtenant Letter to
the Honble the Chancellour concerning the contents of the said
two letters was likewise then read, the tenor whereof followeth
in these words Vizt
Augt the 4th 1676 Honble Sr Inclosed is two letters One
from Mr Nathaniel Stiles, and the other from Jonathan Sibrey
which brings intelligence of some Susquehannough Indians
being at the head of the Bay and of more upon their march
thither and of their desires and designes of a peace with Us &
their intentions for St Maries for that purpose in case of pro-
tection all which appeares by the said Letters; my reflections
upon which newes are as foil first that its pbable their hopes
and Condition in Virga (from whence it is supposed they
come, for to me its without doubt they were the Incenda-
ries of the mischeifs there) proves desperate by either the
neighbouring Indians there, being inclinable to a peace or
likely to doe themselves no good by warr, Occasioned these
Susquehannoughs to leave them and to returne to their old
habitations, and likewise that they have made peace with their
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