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I. You are to enquire, and be well informed, of the Cause of the
uneasiness of the Six Nations, with Respect to this province, and
the Beginning and Duration thereof.
2. Whether any Treaty of Peace had been made or Renewed, be-
tween this Province and those Nations, and when, or with what
Branch of them.
3. In what Degree of ffriendship the Shawan Indiana, stand with
the said Six Nations, or in what Light they look upon them, whether
as Allies, or Tributaries; and what strength, as to number of ffight-
ing men, and by what Right they enjoy the Liberty of residing on
the Susquehanna River, and how long they have inhabitted there,
and from whence they came
4. What was the Cause of their coming to Maryland in the Spring,
1742; whether they prompted the Nanticoke, or other Maryland
Indians, to a Breach of ffriendship with the British Inhabitants; to
endeavour to find out to what end and at whose Instigation, or
whether the said Shawans have any Intercourse with the French,
what Distance they are seated from Conastogoe, up the Susque-
hanna, and what Distance, and on what Course the nearest French
Inhabitants are to them.
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5. To whom if any, the Nanticoke Indians, or other the Mary-
land Indians, are Tributaries, what that Tribute is, and how, when,
and where paid.
6. What nation of Indians, lived about Conastogoe, Grise's Creek,
and on the Lands opposite to Mr Wrights, on the South or West side
of Susquehanna, at any time within these Twenty years, where re-
moved to, and when.
7. Whether they complained of having received any Injury from
the people there settled under Maryland Rights, and what the Injury
was, or by whom done, or did they ever complain thereof to the
Government of Maryland.
8. What Land in particular it is that the Six Nations Claim, how
low down the Susquehanna, or Chesapeake Bay or Potomack River,
or the Branches thereof, or by what other Marks or Circumstance
they may fix their Claim on Maryland, and by what Right they
make such Claim.
9. To let them know, that the Inhabitants of Maryland purchased
their Lands from the predecessors of the Indians now Inhabiting
among them; and also of the Proprietor of the said Province; and
have for above these Hundred years lived in Peaceable and Quiet
Possession, without any such Demand as is now made by them.
10. To know whether the King of Great Britain doth not keep
up a General Peace, in favour of all his Subjects, with the six na-
tions, how lately the same hath been renewed, and by the mediation
of which of the Governments.
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