668 Assembly Proceedings, May 1-June 4, 1744.

Calvert
Paper
No. 1111

As to the town land it is Impossible any possession can be more
full and Ample than his Lordship is, of which I have writ as par-
ticularly as I cou'd in Several letters to my Lord, and flatter myself
that I have represented the thing in such a light as will be satisfac-
tory to him. Pray present my duty to his Lordship and believe me
to be S^r Y^r most humble Servant
Annapolis June 14. 1744 D Dulany
M^r [J.] Browning

Calvert
Paper
No. 1115

My Lord

Last night I returned from the Indian Treaty to which I Had
been Comissioned together with M^r Thomas King Colville instead
of M^r Dulany. I now inclose a Copy of the Treaty made with Them
concerning the Lands: Our first Proposall & Hopes were to procure
a Disclaimer of Their Right to All The Lands in this Province:
This we might Have obtained, Had the Treaty been in any other
place than the province of Pensylvania (fixed by Col Gale) where
we Had the Insinuations & Ill offices of a whole Countrey to ward
against: Nor were They wanting, by what we Could Judge from
their open Conversations & the Indians behaviour, in their practices ;
Since The Indians not only receded from their first Inclinations to
an Agreement with us on our own Terms, but even stopt short in
the Very Act of signing That which we Have made, after Twelve
Had Executed it; This was publickly approved by M^r Logans son,
who was sent thither by His Father, with a recommendation to the
Indians, That He would take Care of Their Interests, since He Could
not be there Himself.
As I might tire Your Lordships with the severall Steps & diffi-
cultys we met with, I shall only now Say, That in Spite of Every
Effort Against us, We Hope our Treaty, will as fully answer your
Lordship's purposes, as If it Had been in the very Terms of Our
first offer, Since the future as well as the present possessions in every
part of the province as well without as within the Limitts are taken
Care of, so as not to be Disturbed by the Six Nations: should They
hereafter Attempt to Act Contrary to the Words of the Treaty, It
would be a Casus Federis, And put such a Rupture on a Quite differ-
ent foot from what it is pretended Their Claim of Land is: It must
be the Country's Quarrell, And not the proprys Dispute about Lands.
We Have purchased This Treaty for the Lands by a Present of
300^l Pensylvania Money, And the Treaty of peace for 100^l So that
the whole Sume of 400^ls Is 100 Pensylva Money less than the Sume
of 300^ls Sterl allotted by the Assembly: By this means we shall be
under no Imbarrasement in the payment.
On our Treaty of Peace, The Indians assured The Three Govern-
ments of Maryland Virga & Pensyla. of their Resolution to Hinder
the French from making any Attempt against the English: The