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    That there be boats provided in such other places as shall be Lib. H. D.

    thought necessary that may be ready to be had upon all

    occasions.

      Proposed that one of his Majtes Honoble Councill & some

    other Intelligible person be sent to his Exncy the Governr of

    Virginia to acquaint him wth the disorders here happen'd

    upon Potomock and the fears the people thereabouts are in,

    by means of the Indians, and that his said Exncy be desired to

    send for the Emperor and some of his great men to know

    their intent, and that the said two Gentlemen have a Lattitude

    given them to discourse them in presence of his said Exncy or

    other Gentlemen to be appointed for that purpose.

      Read the first Articles of peace by the Emperor of Piscatto

    way entred into; as also the last before the whole Assembly

    by wch it appears they have committed breach, of the same by

    deserting this Government &Ca thought fitt that Copyes of the

    same be drawn forth & given, to the two Gentlemen tht are to

    go; Proposing the Honoble Thoms Tench Esqr and Major

    Willm Dent for the persons to go upon this affair, who are

    well approved off.

      The said Esqr Tench humbly moves to be excus'd from

    negotiating that affair, using severall arguments and giving

    divers reasons for the same, but would not be admitted.

      Proposed that his Exncy Sr Edmund Andros be desired to

    appoint some Gentlemen of that Government who may go

    with the said Esqr Tench and Major Dent to some convenient

    place whither they may send for the Emperor & some of his

    great men to discourse and acquaint them that if any of the

    Indians belonging to the said Emperor should do any mis

    chiefe in Maryland, they should be surrendered up to Iustice

    and not protected & sheltered there.

      That Capt Phillip Hoskins and Mr Willm Hatton be joyned

    with them therein, if in case his EXnCY Sr Edmund Andros do

    agree to send some Gentlemen &Ca and that Henry Moor be

    Interpreter to go with them.

      That it be signifyed to his said Exncy how that we are

    informed the Piscattoway Indians have strange notions in

    their heads that the Marylanders wanted to draw them back

    only to destroy and kill them, and that if they did any mis

    chief in Maryland, they should be protected In Virginia as

    long as they lived there.

      That it is reported the Virginia Rangers make frequent

    Alarms in the night by ‘hollowing & firing of Gunns, without p. 563

    any occasion; Therefore proposed that his said Exncy be

    desired that the Rangers may agree upon the Alarm & not

    keep hollowing and fireing of Gunns in the night.

      That his said Exncy be addressed to appoint the said Rangers