44 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1761-1769.

Lib. J. R.
& U. S.

We therefore take the Liberty to transmit to your Lordship
the Addresses We have prepared to Their Majesties and in-
treat the Favour of your Lordship to present them
Horatio Sharpe Lieut. Governor
Benjamin Tasker Prest^t of the Council

His Excellency lays before this Board the following Letter

Philadelphia 2^d October 1762.
Sir
The six Nations having taken a Resolution to continue the
War against their old Enemies the Cherokees, their Chiefs
requested of me at the Treaty lately held with a large body of
them and the Western Indians, that I should open a Store for
the Accommodation of their Warriors at Harris's Ferry, and
that I would forward their Request to you, to have another
opened at Cressap's on Potomack.

Conformable therefore to my Promise, I sent you an Ex-
tract of What passed between us on that Occasion, together
with their Belt; and as they will expect an answer from you
with all convenient Speed, I think if you would be pleased to
send it under Cover to Sir William Johnson, he would take the
first opportunity of conveying it to the Six Nations.
You will observe by the Extract that the Warriors intended
to go through the settled part of Cumberland County, and
through the very Country in which they had committed so
many cruel Outrages, but that they altered their Design on
my representing to them the Dangers of taking such a Route.
I am with the Greatest Respect
Sir your most Obedient & most
Humble servant
Governor Sharpe James Hamilton

Extract from the Treaty held with the Indians at Lancaster
in the Month of August 1762.

The Governor's Answer to the Six Nations.
Brethren

p. 341

By the relation you gave me at Easton in 1758, when you
was relating the Causes of the War, it appears that you were
of Opinion, One of the principal reasons, which made you join
the French against us, was owing in a great Measure to the
ill treatment your Warriors met with in Virginia, in those
places, where your War hath passed through the settled part
of that Colony, and you have now desired me to write to the
Governor of Virginia that as there are settlers on your War