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

Lib. J. R.
& U. S.

were at the Lancaster Treaty last Summer had thought fit by
means of Governor Hamilton to make to me and at the same
time I sent you Inclosed the Answer which the Gentlemen of

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Our Council advise me to give those Indians' Message which
Answer I must desire the favour of you to forward to them
together with a Belt of Wampum if you think it expedient for
me to send one, for as no Indian Trade hath been carried on
from this Province for some time It would not be possible for
me to purchase any Wampum here and indeed if I could and
was to Inclose a Belt in my Letter I apprehend the postage of
it would amount to more than a Belt's Value, as I do not think
our Assembly will ever be persuaded to cultivate the Indians

Friendship by presents or consent to pay for any thing -which

M^r Cresap might deliver their parties passing or repassing
except Provisions and Indeed I am not sure the Assembly will
defray even that Expence. I am in hopes the Indians will not
be dissatisfied at my declining to comply in every respect with
their Request; if you think it would be proper or necessary to
give them a Reason for my declining to do so I should be much
obliged to you if you will be so kind as to communicate it to
them in the Manner you think will be most Satisfactory
I am &c.
Horatio Sharpe.
Brethren of the Six Nations.
The Governor of Pennsylvania having sent me a Belt which
you gave him for the Governor of Maryland at the Treaty
you held with him last Summer at Lancaster and having also
Signified to me that at the time you delivered such Belt you
told him that One Daniel Cresap who lives on Potomack in
this Province had sent you word by some of your Warriors
last Spring that if I would order him to keep a Store there he
would provide every thing for the Warriors who shall pass
and repass that way and that you desired he might be allowed
to do so and to receive any Message and that your Warriors
may pass and repass thro this Province without Molestation
I have thereupon wrote to M^r Cresap recommending it to him
to Supply any of your Warriors that may have occasion to
pass or repass thro this Province and by his House with such
Provisions as they may want for which he will I expect be
paid by your Brethren the Inhabitants of this Province and I
have also recommended it to him in case any of your People
shall choose to trade with him to procure and keep at his
House such goods as he supposes they may want and be willing
to purchase. As the Inhabitants of this Province have always
retained a true regard for their Brethren of the Six Nations
tho by reason of our being at so great a Distance and almost