366 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1721.

             Ljb. x. I shall trouble your Honour with a more particular Account

                  of our proceedings in this Matter but this is at the request of

                  these Indians to accompany them from your Honours

                                   Most Obedient humble Servant

                                            Cha Calvert

                    And afterwards the Governor is pleased to speak to them

                  as follows vizt

                  My Good Friends

                    Because I would have you and all our good Friends to

                  grow rich and happy I earnestly advise you to take care to

                  preserve yourselves and not to go to war with any of your

                  Neighbours when you may live in peace for twenty Scalps is

                  not so good to you as the Saving one of your Brothers or

                  Children alive

                    And thereupon the Governor delivers to the said Ghesaont

                  two Stroud Match Coats and one stroud Match Coat to each

                  of the others in token of his Friendship with them and a

                  stroud Match Coat to each of the Interpreters for their Service

                    And afterwards the Governor is pleased further to say

                  I wish you a Good Iourney to Virginia and that you may all

                  be Friends and I shall be glad to see you as you come back

                  from Virginia and so farewell

                    Afterwards the Governor sends for Liquors to drink with

               p. 9 the said Indians the following healths and have Five of the

                  Great Guns fired on drinking of each health which was ac

                  cordingly perform'd which healths so drunk are as follows

                  Vizt

                    We wish well to our Great King George

                    We wish well to the Lord Baltimore Lord proprietary of

                  this province

                    We wish well to your Great King and all our Indians

                  Friends

                    We wish peace and Friendship betwixt us Christian and

                  all our friend Indians forever

                    The Governor signed a pass for the said Indians to the

                  Several Ferry men of South patuxent and patomack Rivers

                  to suffer the said Indians to pass over the said ferrys without

                  pay the said ferrymen to be paid by the publick

                    Ordered by the Board that an express be sent with a Copy

                  of these proceedings to the Governor of Virginia

                    His Honour the Governors Letter to the Governor of Vir

                  ginia about the Indian Affairs is as follows Vizt