364 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1721.

         Lib. X.  For as you are our Friends and Friends to our Brothers

                   of Virginia we must all be sorry that any of your people

                   have been killed and if our Friends or our Brothers or our

                   selves should do you any harm ‘tis the Custom and Law

                   amongst us that you should have Satisfaction made You the

                   same as if we should hurt one another

                    But as we do not know the Virginia Indians so well as our

                  dear friend and Brother the Governor of Virginia does, who

                  is a good man and we are sure will do you no wrong we will

                  write to him to desire him to use his best endeavours that

                  those Indians may satisfy you to your Content if it Appears

                  to him they have done you wrong

                    But you must by no means do any hurt to the Christian

                  people of Virginia for they and we are all as one mans Chil

                  dren and Subjects under one King the Great King George

                    And we shall write to our Good Friend the Governor of

                  Virginia to desire him to renew the antient Peace with you

                  that they and you and us who are all Friends may live as

                  Brothers and Friends in perfect peace and that your Chil

                  dren and our Children may live as one mans Children for

                  ever

                             The Indians Answer

                    They return the Governor thanks for the Friendship prom

                  ised them which they shall never forget but be always our

                  very Good Friends

            p. 6  Afterwards the Governor acquaints them that we are willing

                  to renew the Articles of Peace made in the year 1685 which

                  if they will they may have from under our hands

                    The Indians say they have the same and that they have no

                  Occasion to hear them but fully Agree to the Renewment

                  thereof and that we are all Friends

                    Annatiquin a Great man of the Nanticoke Indians being

                  asked by the Governor if he had any thing on Behalf of his

                  Indians to Offer to this Board

                    Who produces Articles of Peace made between the late

                  Governor and them Indians and Complains that the English

                  has Setled upon their Lands by which means they have not

                  Land Enough to make Corn fields on and desires to Renew

                  the same Articles of Peace with his Honour the Governor

                    Thereupon his Honour the Governor Confirms the said

                  Articles by writing thereto as follows vizt

                    The Above Articles in behalf of Lord Baltimore Renewed

                  by                              Cha: Calvert.