64 Assembly Proceedings, May 10-June 11, 1748.

L. H. J.
Liber No. 46
May 10

of Ohio, to shew that we take it kindly of them, and are desirous to
Cultivate and Improve the friendship Subsisting between the Six
Nations and us, we have provided a present of Goods a List whereof
will be read to you at the Close of our Answer: They are at John
Harris'^s and the Interpreter will go along with you, and Deliver
them to you there. In the spring we propose to send M^r Weiser to
you and he will be Furnished with a proper present to be Distributed
to all the Indians at Ohio and Canayiahaga and about the Lake Erie,
in Confirmation of what we say we give You this string of Wam-
pum Having received by the Traders a Kind Message from the
Canayiahaga Indians, to let them see we are well pleased with it,
we have sent them a small present of powder and Lead by M^r
Crogton, which you will inform, them of and Likewise of our
further Intentions in their favour with this String of Wampum,
which is given you for that purpose. The president and Council,
at y^r recommendation, will take care to give Scawhady [Scaiohady]
A present for his own private use, and his old friend M^r Logan will
do the same. A string of Wampum
The Indian Speaker having consulted with Scawhady, [Scaiohady]
took up the belt and strings of Wampum in the order they were pre-
sented and repeating the Substance of every Paragraph expressed high
Satisfaction at what the Council had said, and promised to send the
string of Wampum to the Canayiahaga Indians, who being their
own Flesh and Blood They were pleased with the regard shewn to
them; and in Testimony of their entire Satisfaction and Devotion
to the English Interest, they gave the Indian Marks of Approbation,
and danced the Warrior Dance
A True Copy Richard Peters, Secr.
November 25^th 1747

A Message from the President and Council to the Assembly.
Gentlemen
You will see by the papers, which are ordered to be laid before
you, that we have had a Treaty with some Indian Warriors from
Ohio, who came to Town for that purpose by them we are given to
understand that the Tribe of Indians being a mixture of the Six
Nations, to which these Warriors belong have actually resolved to
adhere to their Brethren the English against the French and propose
to kindle a great Fire at Ohio in the Spring, to which they have in-
vited the Indians living round about them to Join with them in these
resolutions, This is an Extraordinary Event in our Favour, which
ought to be Improved to the greatest Advantage, from the situation
of these people being mostly within the Limits of this Government,

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they are capable of doing or preventing the greatest mischiefs and
from what passed at a Conversation between them and the Inter-
preter, there is reason to apprehend that without Encouragement