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BION WILLIAM SHIRLEY, ESQ.

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CONFERENCE
Held at St. George's in the County of York,
on the Twentieth Day of September, Anno Regni
Regis GEORGII Secundi, Magne Britanniæ
Francia et Hibernie, Vicefimo Septimo. Annoque
Domini, 17 5 3.
Β Ε Τ Ν Ε Ε Ν
Sir William Pepperrell, Baronet, Jacob
Wendell, Thomas Hubbard, and John
Winſlow, Eſqrs; and Mr. James Bowdoin.
COMMISSIONERS
Appointed by His EXCELLENCY
WILLIAM SHIRLEY, Efq;
Captain General and Governour in Chief, in and over
His Majeſty's Province of the Maſſachuſetts-Bay in
New-England,
to Treat with the
Eaſtern Indians
of the one Part,
and the Indians of the Penebſcott Tribe
of the other Part.
BOSTON in NEW-ENGLAND:
Printed by Samuel Kneeland, Printer to the Honourable Houſe of
REPRESENTATIVES. I 7 5 3

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Held at St. George's, in the County of York, on the
Twentieth Day of September, Anno Regni Regis
· GEORGII Secundi, Magnæ Britanniæ, Francie
et Hibernia, Viceſimo Septimo, Annoque Domini,
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suis Thurſday,
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THE Commiſſioners, with ſundry other Gentlemen attending
a them, arrived in the River St. George's this Day in the
190 Forenoon, on Board the Sloop Maſſachuſetts, Captain
Thomas Saunders Maſter.ldo (staMMOC tontvo bas uov
os bus 191dgid on ood ynen zu mowiad ganadut.
sno o chod Poft Meridiem. oi boy mond eloqori vas
HE Commiſſioners being feated at a large Table near the Fort,
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attended by a Number of Gentlemen and others, Spectators .03
And ſome of the Chiefs and other of the Penobſcott Tribe of Indians,
being feated over againſt the Commiſſioners. After the uſual Salutati-
ons had paſſed.
1992
Captain Joſeph Bean was ſworn to the faithful Diſcharge of the Truſt
of an Interpreter at this prefent Conference. ibn And, to
do 11
Mr. Ezekiel Price was alſo ſworn to the faithful Diſcharge of the
Truſt of a Clerk to the Commiſſioners.
Afrer
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Avantages
After which, Sir William Pepperrell, in the Name of theCommiſſioners,
Spake to the Indians as follows, viz.
Friends and Brethren,
GOvernor SHIRLEY, who is lately returned to his Government,
would have met You in Perſon at this Conference; but his Stay
Abroad hath been ſo long, that it would have been a Diſſervice
to Him, as well as the Province, to have been here himſelf, but he hath
done us the Honour of a Commiſſion, and thereby hath given us full
Power to appear and act in Behalf of the Government.
Through the Favour of divine Providence we have been preſerved
in our Voyage hither, and are very glad of this Opportunity of ſeeing fo
great a Number of you at this Interview, and deſire to know what
Tribes
you repreſent, and with what Power you do appear; & inulla H
• The laſtTreaty with you (we truſt) hath been kept ſacred & inviolate
on our Part, and in ſome Reſpects we have exceeded our Engagements,
particularly as to your Trade with us, wherein you have had thoſe
which none before
have enjoyed ; and that your
be better ſecured to you, the Government ( on the
Return of the Commiſſioners the laſt Year) immediately came into an
Act, forbidding any Encroachments on yourGame, under very
feverePe-
nalties, and doubt not but you have before now reaped the happy Effeets
of it ; and beſides this, have removed Hall from Montinicus, whom you
then complained of as interrupting you in your Fiſhing and Fowling.
We rejoice in the happy Effects of the Peace and Friendihip
fubfifting between us, hope that any Attemps-to violate the fame
will have no Impreſſion upon you ; but that we may open our Minds
freely to each other, ſhall now proceed to a Conference with you, in
which we have Nothing new to offer, but to renew and confirin our
Former Treaty (which is the ſame as that formerly agreed on between
you and Governor Dummer) that fo the Chain of Peace and Friendfhip
fubfiſting between us may become brighter and brighter ; and to receive
any Propoſals from you for this End, it you have them to offer. '
Commiſſioners. Will you now give an Anſwer to what we have faid
to you as qe tedio bns molinsa to 99doru V1.6 vd bobaris
een, boldir ons so toro busebino ora lo smol bn A
Abenquil,
We will Anſwer you preſently.nings 19vo boingi zaid
boileg bad a
Tel: logoredo Dabishod 01,00 aswell
The Commiſioners withdrew into the Fort, and in half an Hour
after returned. Whengit o mitoyl alla 2s
: 26 si bis
saunoilimmo od oso Abenquit,
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Penobscot Chief telling of his Tribe.

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TO
Itu Abenquit, In the Name of the Reſt of the Penobſcott Tribe, fpake
as follows.solob W xausina 700190 01 519 1 9107W i I
91 Brethren, of all yos gnob. 10 bielybod yas as ste
“WE are well pleaſed to feel you here, and that GOD has pret
ſerved you in your Voyage, and brought you in ſafety to this
nią Place. awo i pritom sbin lliw Msai usd 9H
(We like what Governor Dummer did, and alſo what was done by
Governor SHIRLEY ; and we will ſtand to what our Sachems then did.
I came from Penobycot, and was impowered to do what was Right.
No Man ſhall prevent the happy Union fublifting between us ; the
ſeveral Treaties we have now with us we will ſtand by, and are
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ready to Ratify.
And,
f. Then delivered the Commiffioners the Treaty of Peace made and
renewed in the Year 1749. And the Ratification thereof mader the
laſt Year : Which the Commiſſioners ordered to be returned them.
which was done accordingly.
done accordingly.quodewaybirto su sao . Hauro
Commiſí. How came you by theſe Treaties; and from whom did
you receive them ?
mart B9qxs ob vedT : 25Y
Indians. Our Tribe ordered us to bring them to be ratified and
confirmed.
We give our Service to Governor SHIRLEY, and to the Great
Council of the Province, bir or nod Bleiti 2004 H Timm.
It is very good in them to ſend you here, what is done we like.well
on our Part we will do every Thing that Peace and Friendſhip may,
continue among us.
or diw ynnis1 19 JOY 101 103 nol yra gidinwO
Commiſi. How do you appear, and what Tribes do you repreſent ?
Indians. We are impowred by the Penobſcott Tribe ; and appear for
them only. Some
ngontro
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2. Commiſ! There are not fo many of your Tribe here preſent as
there were two Years ago
ago :
Where are the Reſt ?
CUBOW
9th oils sbs
Indians. The Reſt are gone to Canada upon their own private Buſi-
neſs; but we are fully impowered to act for them ; and it is the ſame
as if they were all here.
engibn 9 od bebola asw
Commiſ. Is your whole Tribe ſatisfied with every Article of the
former Treaty ; and are you impowred to agree for them ?
100o anili
Indians. If we were not, we ſhould not have been here ; nor have
brought the Treaties with us.
We
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We would ſay ſomething relating to our Miniſter : Has not our
Prieſt wrote a Letter to Governor SHIRLEY ? We deſire a Copy of its
Commiſſi. Has any Body ſaid or done any Thing to you to create
Jealouſies in your Mind againſt the Engliſh? If they have, we deſire
you
would freely mention it.d bris gavo V top ni toy borus
Indians. He that is a Man will hide Nothing ; ſo we will ſpeak our
Minds freely to you. bus bib JaMMUC 1000W
bib nigd enda 10 asdw or bast lliw gw bab : TESTH2 10095vo
1 Abenquit. I hope all that has been ſaid pleaſes you ; We like it, and
fo will all the Reſt of our Tribe. U vaosit od novog lisch ist
91 bas duhet w widowo owT Inigvs
Commiſi. Why are not the Norridgawocks here as uſual ?
07 vbro
boIndians. Did not the Norridg awocks write to Governor Shirley laſt
Summer, not to come down yet ; but to defer his coming ſome Time
later ? Donutsi od o bobo 30
oth rid:
Commiſi. Don't the Norridgawocks expect the Commiſſioners down this
Year zorlw moil brisa T 520 d joy ban WH seva
Indians. Yes : They do expect them.
ๆ ( modi gvis DOV
boCommilli
. Have you ſeen any of the Norridgawocks lately?
bomo
Indians. We have not ; but our Prieſt has.
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Commiſſi. Has your Prieſt been to Norridgawock?! art to Tomo
Indians.'
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He has ; and aſked us what we waited for here ; he
told us you would not come down, and tryed what he could to prevent
our waiting any longer for you, or treating with you.
Sastangot vor ob zadiri osciw buis 189995 uovo wot!
- Commiſi
, We intend to go to Richmond, to Treat
Treat with the Norridza-
wocks ; but you being the principal Tribe, we came here firſt. no misdi
Then the Commiſſioners told the Indians, that they had ſome Tokens
of Friendſhip from the Government ; which according to their Promiſe
made them the laſt year, would be renewed to them Yearly, ſo long
as they kept the PEACE facred and inviolate.916
bar imot 107 Dr.borno 918 sud: 296
Then the Commiſſioners drank King GEORG E's Health ; which
was pledg’d by the Indians.
And then the Conference was adjourned 'till To-Morrow Morning
Nine o'clock.
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sau diw asis.97 Friday,
SIY YOU

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ni baai lieto Friday, September 21.
, "Westmihan
goin T 15110 oi noinoqori serw
loth The Commiſſioners and Indians being met.
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TOA won 19V Ogniga
Commiſi
. We are glad to ſee you this Morning in good Health ; and
svigs are ready to hear what you have further to offer.
Indians. We have ſomething to ſay to you with Reſpeết to the
Trade and Beaver.
lisasi yd so go a
Beaver is now very good, and will be ſo two Weeks hence; two
Sabbath Days hence Beaver will be as good as when catch'd under the
Ice. The young Men want to know when Beaver is good,ovs griguard
Commiſſi. Beaver always ſpeaks for it ſelf : You may be ſure to have
the full Worth of your Beaver according to its Goodneſs, at whatever
Time of the Year it is catch'd.
vb A on SEO
v Indians. What will Beaver be about two week's hence ?' vlagur og
Sdua 10 OSITOST 100 to 9oooo
Commiſſi
. Whatever it will fetch at Boſton, We will give you : mox
Brethren,
nog do 01 sov sbalzog oss vora
« The Government are determined to treat you with the ſtricteſt
Juſtice, and the greateſt Kindneſs : And if you will attend to the fol-
lowing Particulars, you muſt be convinced of it.
Jad You give no more for what you buy at the Truck-Houſe, than the
fanie Articles be bought for with ready Money at Boſton : Strouds laſt
Year were £. 70. a Piece, now are but £. 60. In Governor Dummer's
Time, Rum was ſold you at 5f. a Gallon ; ard Beaver was then fold i
for
85. a Pound ; Rum is now but 168. a Gallon, but Beaver is 40%. a
Pound, ſo that you gain more than a Quarter Part : You have more
now for four Shillings, than formerly you had for five Shillings; and
this is the Caſe with almoſt every Thing elſe, excepting Wampum.
Fall Beaver in Governor Dummer's Time was but 6ſ; a Pound, now it
is 25). Stage Beaver then was 48. a Pound, now it is 15%. Then you
had not aBuſhel of Corn for an Otter, now you have a Buſhel & an half.
div, barato ai ni asinu sino bolo sist sd
Indians. We want to have Wampum as it was formerly; it is now
dearer.
vo odo 910iad ji yra 100
Commili. That Article is dearer we acknowledge ; but we are ſo far
from making any Advantage by it, that we ſend for it to New York, and
purchaſe it with Dollars : Are at all this Trouble, and yet
exactly as it coſt us, without the leaſt Advance. Svou 37
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Rum avith your Money, at
.
38
Indians. What was the price of Spring Beaver formerly ? And in
what Proportion to other Things.
Commiffi. Spring Beaver was then 8f a Pound, and Corn 68. a Buſhel;
SpringBeaver is now 40%. a Pound, andCorn but 28%. aBufhel.' In Gover-
nor Dummer's Time we gave you but eight Gallons of Rūm. for five
Pound of Spring Beaver ; now for the ſame Quantity of Beaver we give
you upwards of twelve Gallons : You have Rum at the Truck Houſe
twelve Pence a Quart cheaper than you can buy it
with
Boſton by Retail.
o Brethren, wo sd lliw bore boog voor won aina
onto The Government will ſupply you with what you want ; and have
19 & sonod aya dpdd.2
brought every Thing to the very loweſt Price, as cheap by Rerail as you
could purchaſe by Wholeſale ; and give you for your Beaver and Skins
as they are ſold at Boſton. The firm Reſolution of the Government is
to make no Advantage of this Trade with you ; they are determined
to ſupply you cheaper than the French can or will do :/ And in every
Inſtance of our Treatment of you, you muſt be convinced that we ſeek
your Intereſt more than the French do, notwithſtanding the baſe Methods
they take to perſuade you to the contrary.
978. nomsvo ST)
Indians. There is ſometimes a Scarcity in the Truck-Houſe : We
would have it always fupplied. nivsoo ad fun toy elaludinal aniwel
Commiſſi. Sometimes there is a Scarcity in Boſton , but when that
is not the Cafe, you may depend upon a full Supplyod sd aslista on
Indians. Capr. Bradbury, and Lieut. Fletcher, are very good Men,
,
We like them well, and deſire they may be encouraged.
a 1975 100
bado 95.18
91 Commiſſi. We are glad to hear it the Government will always take
Care to get the beſt Mene voy ylremot nor eagaillid not 101 wont
Mecbiąs) We live a great Ways from the Truck-Houſe : We would
3 Indians.) have a Słoop with Goods fent down to Paſamaquody.
Commiffi. As fome Indians have done Miſchief that Way, it will not
be ſafe to ſend one there, unleſs it is covered with a Fort : If you
Behalf of that Tribe are
this Propoſal, We will
upon
our Return lay it before the Government.
ud: bolwonglys 9W 191595 ai slinA JAT illiomorro
Mechias
We will let that Matter dropinavb A yas gaislom mol
pomo1 bag duorT aid lis 1 SIA : aisllo diw ji sledova
Commiſi. The Government has ſent us here to hear any. Grievances
you may labour under, that the ſame may be redreſſed ; and to do every
Thing we can for your beſt Good and Intereſt.
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Commiffi. Have you any Thing at preſent further to offer ?
Indians. We have done.
Commiſioners.
ingbiy Friends and Brethren, ribqu bobps ab eo num byburger
6 WHEN we met you in Conference Yeſterday, we were in Expe&ta-
ne i tion of ſeeing the Norridgawocks at this Place alſo ; but as they
do not appear, we would remind you of one Article ſtipulated and
confirmed the laſt Year, which hath not been complied withal : We
mean the Return of our Captives.
Altho' we do not immediately charge YOU of this Tribe with this
Neglect, yet you can't but remember theCommiſſioners were aſſured the
laſt Year, that the Parents who had their Children then in Captivity
might reſt ſatisfied, that they ſhould be returned them in the Spring
following, at furtheft; And as this Promiſe was made by the Norridga-
wacks when you were preſent, you engaged that you would endeavour
that the ſeveral Articles of Peace then renewed (of which this was one)
ſhould be complied with by the Norridgawocks, as well as your ſelves;
yet we muſt inform you, that after all Attempts for their Redemption,
Nothing is done ; but the Children ſtill remain in the Hands of the
French, altho' their Parents have ſince been at the Expence and Trouble
of making a tedious Journey to Canada for that Purpoſe.
· You find thac the Engliſh have faithfully fulfilld all their Promiſes
with the Indians, and therefore juſtly expect the like Return from you ;
and in Conſequence hereof, that you uſe your beſt Endeavours that all
our Captives may be forth with reſtored, that ſo there may be no further
Reaſon for Complaint on this Account.
asibni de
You informed us Yeſterday that your Miniſter had been attempting
to prejudice you againſt the Engliſh, inſinuating that there would foon be a
War between the twoNations, and thereby would (if poſſible) have pre-
vented your meeting the Commiſſioners at this Time ; but that you was
jealous of him, and believed him not to be a good Man, becauſe he had
wrote to Governor Shirley (as you were informed) on this Head. To
which we reply, That it is abſolutely falſe and without the leaſt Foun-
dation, for we do aſſure you, that there is at this Time a good Harmony
ſublifting between the King of Great-Britain, and the French King. marts
The Government of the Maſſachuſetts are fully ſenſible of the
Artifices uſed by the French to raiſe Jealouſies and create Miſunderſtand-
ings between the Engliſh and the Indians, and of the Methods the French
uſe to defeat the Meaſures the Engliſh take for maintaining Peace and
good Friendſhip : But as a Proof of our Sincerity, Governor SHIRLEY,
B
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ad woll
from a tender Regard to your Welfare, and to prevent your being any
further impoſed upon by them, has ſent you a Letter by us, which we
have Orders to have firſt interpreted, and then delivered you; as alſo
another Letter which he received from the French Jeſuit (Pierre Gounon)
your preſent Miniſter ; by which you will fee, he is not in the leaſt to be
regarded, much leſs depended upon ; and after ſuch clear and evident
Demonſtrations of Friendſhip on our Side to you, in the foregoing In-
ſtances, and our fulfilling our former Engagements of making you an
annual Preſent as long as you ſhould continue in Amity with us, which
we have hitherto done, and our being preſent at this Time to deſtribute
the fame for this Year : We ſay, after ſo many Inſtances of Sincerity
and Friendſhip from us, it will diſcover a baſe and diſingenuous Spirit
in you, not to reſent all the Artifices and Tricks of the French (in whom
there is no Truft) and maintain a conſtant Friendſhip with the Engliſh,
who have always been your ſteady Friends ; in which we apprehend
your real Intereſt doth conſiſt.'
Cortirls as
Then the Letter from Governor Shirley to the Penobſcott Indians,
and alſo the Letter from the French Jeſuit to Governor SHIRLEY were
diſtinctly read, interpreted and delivered to them,
Commiſji. By this Letter it is evident, that your Jeſuit makes no
more of you than if you were a Parcel of Miſqueters.
Indians. You muſt mind him no more than Traſh..oni na to
Commiſſi. Our Miniſters preach Peace, and adviſe us to live in
Peace with you,
and are Men of Truth. Shall the Government fend
ſuch a One to you
?
* 1 Commiſſi. Have you any Thing further to ſay ?
The Indians making no Anſwer.
fainiga o sol
Commiſſi. Are you now ready to confirm the Peace as renewed at
Falmouth in 1749. and ratified and confirmed the laſt Year.
2. Indians. We are ready to ratify and confirm the fame.
a to uolo
Indians. There are ſome Indians at Mechias and Paffamaquody, and
what we ſay binds them equally with us.
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Then the Commiſſioners informed the Indians, that they would meet
them again in the Afternoon, in order to fign the Ratification of the
Articles of PEACE, and deliver the Preſents ordered them by the
Government. To buis 2901 plieno
The Commiſſioners then drank King GEORG E's Health, as alſo
Governor SHIRLEY's zand a laſting PEACE. Which were pledg’d
by the Indians.
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*** The Commiſſioners and Indians being again met.
Commiſſi
. HAVE you conſidered of what we ſaid in the Forenoon,
relating to the Captives? We are ſorry the Promiſe made
by the Norridgawocks was not inforced by you : Such is your Weight
and Authority with them, that had you uſed your beſt Endeavours for
their Redemption, it would have been effected. bus
Bloow
Indians. We wiſh to do that which is Good and Right, and we
will try whatever we can that they may be returned ; but we cannot
do any more than we can do : This we further Promiſe, that if they are
not returned fome Time this Fall, we will go after them, and endeavour
WE took have been returned.
TOU
Commilli. According to your Promiſe we now expect you uſe your
utmoſt Endeavours for the Redemption of theſe unhappy Captives.
Indians. We rejoice ; all our young Men rejoice, and the Reſt of
our Tribe, when they hear of what we have now done, will alſo rejoice
at it :-We are ready to confirm all the Treaties we delivered you to
brighten the Chain, and wiſh that the Peace may continue forever.
Our Thoughts are much upon our Miniſter, and his deceiving us ;
but as we don't mind him, we hope you will not.
chebe 'bloom liibolod boles
Then upwards of thirty of the Chiefs and others of the Penobſcott
Tribes, Signed Sealed & Delivered to the Commiſlioners theRatification
of the Articles of Peace made and concluded on at Falmouth in Caſco-
Bay, in the Year 1749.
After which,
The Commiſſioners acquainted the Indians they were ready to deliver
them the Preſents ordered to be given them by the Government.
Which was done accordingly. For which the Indians expreft great
Thankfulneſs, and deſired Liberty that their young Men might expreſs
their good Liking to what had been now done, by having a Dance in
Preſence of the Commiſſioners. After their Dance was finiſhed,
The Commiſſioners drank King GEORG E's Health, wiſhing that
the Peace now ratified might continue as long as the Sun and Moon
ſhall endure.
༽ དུ་བ་
Then the Commiſſioners went on Board the Sloop in order to proceed
to Richmond, to meet the Norridgawock Tribe of Indians.cotot
Atteft. Ezekiel Price, Clerk Commiſſi.
100101
en
yoga DITOTTUK
Tueſdby,
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А'
Tueſday, September 25th 1753.
T two o'Clock, P. M. The Commiſſioners arriv'd at Richmond
(on Kennebeck- River) and in about an Hour after their Arrival,
Quaruet, a Norridgawock Indian, came down theRiver in a Canoe,
and waited on the Commiſſioners on Board the Sloop, and inform-
ed them, he believed the Indians of the Norridgawock Tribe were
at Norridgawock, and did not expect the Arrival of the Commiſſio-
ners ſo ſoon ; but if they would allow him four Days he would go to
Norridgawock and fetch them in. The Commiſſioners diſpatch'd him
accordingly, with Orders to bring them in as ſoon as poſſible.
Thurſday, September 27. Eight o'Clock, P. M.
P900
UARUET the Indian Meſſenger returned, and informed the Com-
miffioners that in his Way to Norridg awock, he met five Canoes
with the Chiefs of the Norridgewock Tribe ; and that they were
on their way to Richmond, and would be in To-Morrow Morning.
os do plano il Friday, September 28.
THE Chiefs of the Norridgawock Tribe being arrived, came into the
Fort, and after the uſual Salutations had pafs’d, The Commiſſioners
aſked theIndians, if they ſhould be ready in an Hour's Time to enter on
a Conference. They told the Commiſſioners they would be ready.
Then the Commiſſioners ordered Seats to be prepared without the Fort
for thatPurpoſe.
The Commiſſioners and Indians being mer.
The Indians were informed that an Oath would be adminiſtred to Mr.
Walter McFarland, truly to interpret what ſhould paſs between the
Commiſſioners and the Indians at this Conference ; and alſo an Oath to
Mr. Ezekiel Price,faithfully to diſcharge the Truſt of Clerk to the Com-
miſſioners. Which Oaths were accordingly adminiſtred. lo sonda
Then Sir William Pepperrell, in the Name of the Commiſſioners,
fpake as follows. as 2001 a '
submT WOS 2011
Friends and Brethren,
« THE Reaſon of Governor SHIRLEY's not meeting You in
Perſon this Year, is, his having been ſo long Abſent from his Go-
vernment ; and the Affairs of it at preſent not allowing Him to
be here ; We that are preſent, appear by his Order and Commiſſion,
and come fully authorized and impowred to treat with you.
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our Lands.
• We are fully ſenſible of the Attempts the French by Means of their
Miſionaries among you, have been making from Time to Time, in
order to create Jealouſies and Miſunderſtandings between the Engliſh and
the Indians ; and that Pierre Gounon, the Father of the Penobſcotts, hath
lately been here, and would, if poſſible, have prevented your Attendance
at this Conference, as he would have done the Penobſcotts at St. George's;
notwithſtanding which, they readily met the Commiſſioners there, were
pleaſed with that Interview, and we hope that you will take the Advice
the Penobſcotts gave the Commiſſioners the laſt week, not to mind him ;
that their Thoughts run much on him, and his deceiving them; and
hoped that we would not regard him any more than they did, which
was no more than Traſh : And we are well ſatisfied that before we Part,
we ſhall produce fuch Evidence of his Treachery, as ſhall convince you
that he is a falſe Man ; and that it will not be for your Credit to regard
him, or what he fays : But on the contrary, it will be your Intereſt to
La bononi bu
regard the Engliſ more than the French.
If we look into the laſt Treaty, we ſhall find, that three Articles
were more efpecially the Subject of it, namely Trade, our Captives, and
• As for Trade, we need only obſerve to you, That the Government
have given Orders to the feveral Truck-Maſters, to ſupply you with
a
Engliſh can furniſh you with them at a lower Price than the French;
We do aſſure you that it is the Determination of the Government, that
• As for our Friends in Captivity ; We muſt remind you of your
ſolemn Engagements to the Commiſſioners, that they ſhould be return'd
by the laſt Spring at furtheft ; but they ſtill remain in the Hands of the
French : Thisconduct of yours, is baſe and unjuſt, and as ſuch,deſerves
the higheſt Reſentments, and therefore, after all your Promiſes, We now
demand of you the Reaſon why they are not returned ? And unleſs you
give us ſome ſatisfactory Account hereof, we muſt plainly tell you, that
you have not fulfilled your Engagements; and that if they are not forth-
with reſtored, we muſt look upon it as a Violation of the Ratification
of Peace the laſt Year. liv ovou
Това е
« The Government according to their Promiſe, have conſidered your
Complaints of the laſt Year, relating to ſome Engliſh Settlements making
on Kennebeck-River, and were in hopes that what they had wrote you on
this Head, would have been to Satisfaction ; but if it is not, we truſt
that in the Courſe of this Conference, we ſhall offer you ſuch Evidence
of our Claim to thoſe Lands, as ſhall convince you that we have not
done you any Injuſtice in what we have done ; nor fo much as deſign-
ed it.
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to
they will.

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979W 311
niste YhM
When we have gone through theſe Articles, and renewed the Peace
ratified the laſt Year, and given you the Preſents deſigned you by the
Government ; we know of Nothing that will prevent our ſpeedy return
to our ſeveral Homes ; unleſs you have ſomething new to offer, which,
it you have, we ſhall give it its due Weight and Conſideration, but as
we have been ſo long from Home, we muſt inſiſt on the greateſt Diſpatch.'
SHU BIDAT portioners
soi Commiſi. I. Are you ready to Anſwer what we have now ſaid to you?
é to Indians. We will anſwer you preſently.loodi svag 10 Todo
bas- gaivizob aid big
The Commiſſioners then acquainted the Indians they had a Letter
from Governor Shirley to them, which he had ordered ſhou'd be in-
terpreted and then delivered them. Which was done accordingly. And
alſo a Copy of the Letter ſent Governor SHIRLEY by Pierre Gounon, the
French Jeſuit at Penobſcott; which was alſo interpreted, and then deli-
vered them. And at the fame Time the Jeſuits original Letter to Go-
vernor Shirley was ſhown to the Indians.. ons on it lool sw.11.
bons. Then the Conference was adjourn’d to Three o'Clock, P. M.913w
lebnis
gavo od Afternoon, Three o’Clock. T 70+ 2A:
davi doy placu o 22
1917 ottobro
Hoa The Commiſſioners and Indians being met.
Camion
THEOLU 1W TO Guate
Jedt TOYODOH to co
Salutations as uſual.
uſual. satis boy bosch W
Quenois, (WE have thought of the Words ſpoken to us in the
Speaker. Ja Morning, and look upon what you then ſaid as if
sds bas Has the Governor was preſent and ſpake himſelf.
ve We thank you for reading and interpreting to us che Jeſuit's Letter.
We know the Hearts of all the Indians hereabouts, and of ſome now
preſent, who are lately come from Canada, and all our Hearts are good.
- We know the Penobſcotts love Peace, and we as well as they love
Peace, and will hold faſt to it.
to f All the Gentlemen of the Norridgawock Tribe are here preſent.
Toxus is an old Man, and we believe will never be here.
D. Do not mind any Thing the Jeſuit ſays, we know it is Peace all
over the World. We want no Jeſuits to meddle with Treaties. All we
want of them is to pray with us, and take Care of our Souls. If any
of our Jeſuits ſhould write any Thing concerning us, or Peace or War,
if
you will inform us of it, we will let you know whether it is true or
falſe.
da cor do leo as blog
od ou ozon
6 What
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Morbi
. What this
is Penobfcort Jefuit wrote is a Lycia We do not want War.
We deſire to live in Peace.
has ſaid is
MM obil
6 We have done with that Article.'
Commifli
. Hath not the Jefuit been endeavouring to make Miſchief
between you and us, and to prevent your coming to this Conference ?
named and mobiilto only to a1000 of om blwow si bas
Quenois, slot rost 01 oogidero golovkot og mod vol 100 YoM
Friends and Brethren,
9190
Ved I would ſpeak further to you :
youlaid to palinA si lo no.
• Here is a River belonging to us? You have lately built a new
:ww.bilst
Garriſon here ; we wiſh you would be content to go no further up the
River than that Fort or newed 9019 I ai 91901 yatuor
• Governor Dummer's Talk was very good, we like it well. bluog
« Governor Dudley and Governor Dummer, both told us that no
Settlement ſhould be made above Richmond Fort: The Faſhion is, if the
Governor don't like any Thing, to tell the Indians of it ; and for the In-
dians to do the ſame to him.com 91901 may sakit na
Die We live wholly by this Land, and live but poorly; the Penobſcotts
hunt on one Side of us, and the Canada Indians on the other Side ; there-
fore do not curn us of this Land. We are willing you ſhould enjoy
all the Lands from the New-Fort, and fo downwards.
* We are done as to the Lands. We will, now ſpeak as to the
Captives.
* We heard that Mr. Noble, Father of the Children, was gone to
Canada to fetch them.
py wien ai 1
• Here are Palaguerent, and Neudegawaremet, two Indians that went
to Canada for a Fryar, and to carry the Belt of Wampum from the Go-
vernor to the Arraſagonticooks.
og en
J. That Tribe as well we rejoice to hear there is Peace all over the
World, and that the Land is now ſmooth.
One of the Captives is at the Village of Werenock, the others are at:
Arraſagonticook.
tiliw.vlarnog vlucigionecha mart4
Commiſi. Why did you not bring in the Captives, agreable to your
folemn Engagements ? Inna
gnista bits bruota 10 y no
Qenois. The Reaſon I did not go was becauſe I broke my
Arm; the
Journey is very great, and I could not Paddle. It was not worth
while for twenty to go. vado 3*6ti aw won 196W sluil oud zi orad:
Commiffi. You promiſed to notify Capt. Lithgowo ? Why did not
you ?
do it on a worlw. ob bos omistus
Quenois. It was early in the Spring.
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the Captivalolema Promiſes you then made us touching the Return
Commiſi. You are miſtaken, it was the middle of Summer. Be-
fides, Mr. Noble faw Mitchel's Son at Montreal.
dzwonob
Quenois
. Why did
Why did he not bring him Home when he ſaw him?
Commiffi. The French Governor ſaid, you had fold them to the French;
and he would not let the Fathers of the Children bring them away
for
Money ; nor let them go to Arraſagonticook, to fetch thoſe that were
there.
One of the Articles of the laſt Treaty, and upon which we greatly
was, the
of the Captives. , og of sksinos od bluów doy liv ow
Indians. You ſay there is Peace between the two Crowns. How
could the French Governor detain them?
o Commiſ. Perhaps he expected that you who put them into their
Hands, ſhould take them out.
006
hot
Da ist
aus galit nobavo
Indians. If Sebaſtine was here, we ſhould be glad , he is a Man of
Influence, he belongs to the Arraſagonticook Tribe s we believe he would
fetch them in.
bado sd no ensibnl ob 907 bos en lo sbiz sno non
Commiſi
. ſpeaking You promiſed laft Year to go for them.
I aint nazam do ob st
to Quenois.
baslona
you
before, I broke my Arm laſt April. , 21
Commiſſi. Is it not well?
Is it not well?': 10 1911 16Y Md bisod 9W
Quenois. No: It is not well yet.
mon't post of
angonlow
SM baterie 109 910 9791
Commiſi. If you was not able to go yourſelf why did not ſome
other of
your
Tribe ?
oploty srstimony
of Indians. Il Mr. Noble went, and we thought he would have brought
them.
doort won a basi pred as be
Vior. V sdi grigi lo 900
Commiſi. Is this complying with your Promiſe ? When the Engliſh
Promiſe, they religiouſly comply with it; they promiſed the laſt Year
that your Complaints ſhould be redreſſed reſpecting the Engliſh hunting
on your Ground, and taking your Game ; immediately upon the Great
Courts
s fitting after their Return, a Law was made to prevent ita oss
slu Indians. It is true, we made a Promiſe to fetch in the Captives ;
there is but little Water now, we tho't they were returned. We are
now going upon our Hunting, but in the Spring we will go to Canada,
and talk with the French Governor, and do what we can to bring them
gnisqa 9d ni yhtag sew I
Commili.
-Quenois. I told
won
go!
in.

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Commiffi. Did not you fell
fell them to the French Poy
n tento
Indians. We did not ſell them ; it was the Arraſagonticook's that ſold
them.
Slot 1001
100 uova
Then the Commiſſioners read to them the Conference
ad to them the Conference of laſt Year
reſpecting the Captives, and Quenois's Anſwer, wherein he owned that
he was at Swan-Iſland when Noble's Children were taken. bis 1975 ans dat
Quenois. I deny that I ſaid I was at Swan-Iſland; I ſaid that I was
no nearer than Richmond. If I ſaid that I was there, I did not ſpeak
true, I was drunk. : bris absech es sal 01 brila sd felt W
Paſaguerent ſaid that he and Quenois were on the other Side the
River, at Richmond, when the Children were taken, and not on the
Inand.
cron
Tisdi bono 1050 Bhsee stocaremb
Commiſh. Agreable to our Promiſe the laſt Year, we acquainted the
Government of the three Things you then complained of. The firſt was
with Reſpect to the Price of Goods, which you have cheaper now than
in Governor Dummer's Time. The ſecond was relating to one
Hall and his family, living at Montinicus, who you complained of as
ſpoiling your Hunting ; and he has ſince been removed by Order of the
Government. The other was, that ſeveralEngliſhmen from the Weſtward
had frequently hunted on your Lands to the ſpoiling of your Game :
The Government hath fince made a Law to forbid any Perſons hunting
there under
very ſevere Penalties. So thac you ſee the three Things the
Penobſcotts and you complained of are redreſſed ; and as the Engliſ have
been as good as their Word to you, we expect the like from you ; and
that by next Spring, according to your prefent Promiſe, you go after the
Captives, and bring them in ; otherwiſe we ſhall look upon it that you
intend to break the Peace now ſubſiſting between us.
Paſſaguerent. In the Spring we will go, I myſelf will go : We will
get them in, if poſſible ? If I can get but one, I will bring him in.
Commiſſi. You promiſe fair, and we depend upon your faithful Per-
formance of it.
Syle
We will now ſay ſomething to you concerning the Lands.
By the Treaties made in Governor Shure's and in Governor Dum-
Mer's Time, the Engliſh were allowed to have all the Lands that they had
purchaſed or poffèffed.
Then that Part of Governor SHUTE's Treaty which related to the
Lands, was read and interpreted to the Indians s as alſo, that in Gover-
nor Dummer's.
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Commilli

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Commiſſ. You made the fame Complaints reſpecting your Lands at
the Treaty with Governor DUMMER, ay you do now. b
sorokt
Are
you not ſenſible that theſe Lands were ſold to the Engliſh by
your Anceſtors, and fairly purchaſed by them ?
18mescoilliamo dia
Indians. w We have never heard from our old Men, that our Fore-
fathers ever fold any of theſe Landsslitiny A now bra
Commiſſi. The Tribes in Governor Dummer's Treaty faw the old
Deeds, and owned them.
Indians. We ſhall be glad to ſee the Deeds, and to know the Names
of the Indians that ſold theſe. Lands.bre 9
bns or tool bus
Then the Commiſſioners ſhewed the Indians the Deeds from the an-
cient Sagamores, and mentioned their Names, many of whom they ſaid
they remembred.
To je
Commiſſion Have you never heard of, nor ſeen the Ruins of old Houſes
built ac Cubenoc and Teconnoc ?
2010 2011 srl: 01 Dooleansin
Indians.
AMMORTIVO
We
10 Dostorno HOY
have never heard of any more than one at Cadumcock.
Commiffi. By ancient trading Houſes up thisRiver, by ancient Settle-
ments, and by the ancientDeeds now produced and ſhown you, you muſt
be convinced that theſe Lands belong to us. And we now hope, that in
the Settlement of them, we ſhall live like Brethren and Friendssvos ad
abi
Indians. We will inform the Relations and Friends to the Owners of
theſe Lands of what has been faid.9. to bonislono DOY DISNES
bar
30.0570 Wystas boos 1950
Commiſs. We ſhould be glad you would enquire into theſe Facts,
particularly as to ancient Sttlements and Trading Houſes up
this River,
and ſee whether Things are not as we relate them. 99 sdi ord or basini
Two Indians from Arraſagonticook coming in, the Commiſſioners
aſked them, if they were impowered to appear in Behalf of their Tribe ;
but they told the Commiſſioners they were not.
CUOY Toquer brunligonaY
Commiſi. Have you any Thing further to ſay ? 11 10 950160
Indians. We have nothing furcher to ſay i demol yol won lliw 9W
orvoer nie
Commiſſi
. Are you ready and willing to ratify and confirm the Treaty
of Peace made at Falmouth in Caſco-Bay, in the Year 1749. and which
was ratified and confirmed the laſt Year at St. George's. Bet mod
99 BIS TORO
Indians.Yes : We are ready to do it.9191919
: We are ready to do it.97970157af bas been asweb.
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ble
a b We told
Commiflo Vall well: edito you this Morning, and hope you are
, ,
Then the Commiſſioners acquainted the Indians that they would meet
them in the Morning, in Order to fign the aforeſaid Articles of Peace,
and at the fame Time would deliver them the Preſents ordered by the
Government to be given them ; and as a Signal of the Tinte of Meeting,
would fire a great Gun.busi bist 9ct to sa DOY 70 vodi podio
Then King GEORGE's Health was drank by the Commiſſioners ;
and the ſame Health was pledged by the Indians. Jonivoe stort
obsa 26W V
stota bos supaini si
anal 9 tuoda
om begs bad as Saturday, September 29. 10th imions
The Commiſſioners and Indians being met. I
and briew
E are to ſee
to
ΤΟΠΙ,
Giul or grob bed vedt aan bio
you Yeſterday that all the Land on both sides
Kennebeck-River as high up as Waſſerunſick belonged to the Engliſh, they
having bought it of the Indians : your Forefathers many Years ago fold
them to the Engliſh, as appears by the Deeds we then produced to you,
which Deeds you then appeared fully fatisfied with, as you knew by
Tradition moſt of the Names of the Indians who figned them sro bns
In Conſequence of theſe Purchaſes, the Engliſh took Poffeffion of faid
Lands, and made Settlements upon them, and carried on a great Trade,
particularly at Cuſhnoc and Teconnoc, where are now to be ſeen the Ruins
of the Engliſh Houſes. Id quam bloot die
edjeda Boga
Being convinced of this
, and the Engliſh Right to faid Land, you ceded
Governor
Governor Dummer's ; and by other Treaties
before their Time, which you have ſince confirmed,
The Engliſh therefore have an undoubted Right to all the aforeſaid
Lands, and conſequently have a Right to ſettle them whenever they
think proper : And it is expected by this Government, after giving you
this Satisfaction, that you do not diſturb the Engliſh in any Settlements
they are now about or may hereafter undertake on the Lands aforeſaid :
And we on our Part promiſe you, that you ſhall not be interrupted in
your Hunting & Fiſhing; to which Purpoſe a Law of this Government
has been made ſince the laſt Treaty, at your Deſire, forbidding under a
very fevere Penalty all the Engliſh from Hunting within ſaid Lands, or
giving you the leaſt Interruption in that or any other Regard.
As to the Owners of theſe Lands, who you ſay are at Arraſagonticook,
and elſewhere : We wiſh they were now here, that we might have an
Opportunity of confering with them, and giving them the fame Satis-
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faction

[ 20 ]
faction we have now given you : But we deſire you to inform them
with what we have now told you, and we make not the leaſt Doubt, but
that they will be entirely ſatisfied ; eſpecially as we have no Deſign to
abridge them of the Liberty of Hunting and Fiſhing, which is the only
Uſe, either they or you, make of the ſaid Lands, and of the Waters.
Quenois. . We will ſay what we know about the Lands and
Theſe Governours, and General NICHOLSON, called the Indians into
Piſcataqua, and after a Treaty was made, they talked about the Lands.
General NICHOLSON ſaid, they would bury all that was bad, and make
the Land imooth.
The Indians deſired the Engliſh might not ſettle further Eaſtward than
Brunwick, which way that if any Engliſhmen ſhould ſettle further Eaft-
ward than they had done, to inform the Governor of it, and they ſhould
pay dear for it. basil s TA
ỉ The Penobſcotts, and Arraſagonticooks, who were the Owners of the
Land that Way, were at that Treaty, and talk'd about it.
The Governor then ſaid, it would not hurt us if the Engliſh ſettled that
Way: We mean at Brunſwick, North-Yarmouth, Caſco-Bay and Saco ;
and the Indians conſenred that it might be fo.
Governor SHUTE had a Treaty at Arrowſick, and the Indians then told
the Engliſh, they might go three Miles
up
this River.
2 Governor Shute laid, it was not far enough. We were willing, and
agreed that the Engliſh ſhould go as far up the River as Richmond, and
the Governor was glad of it, and liked it well.
DET
What we have now ſaid is what we have heard of former Times.
Grado d Du
Indians,
barato Soul Vad won awet dla siolada
bil Friends and Neighbours,
helbedwelms svad 9801979d: dilyn T
Overvlondyboobrilor
We ſhould be glad to be heard upon ſomething further.
DOV VOTAS
Commiſji
. We are ready to hear any Thing you have to ſay. 12 eins
andconten
Indians. We have ſeen Governor Phips's Letter, he ſays what is
Right.
uer
chov 11.1 100 20 Swan
We have alſo ſeen Governor SHIRLEY'S Letter; we take it kindly of
him, he writes in Love, and is for Peace; and we like it well.
There have been a great many Governors at Boſton; we believe them
on to
to be all very Good.
Good, Toyoto O
We have never heard that any of the Governors deſired the Engliſh
might ſettle higher up than Richmond; altho' we have heard it from
10. Yerige
other People. 100 gaivia bus modi disew guts
dia
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HOVI
ther up.
A NOW
f It would hurt us for you to ſettle higher up the River than the New-
Fort : We are not againſt your going ſo far up, but are unwilling you
ſhould go any further up.
We have wrote twice upon this Matter to Boſton, and now you hear it
from our Mouths.
hope you
will think of what we have ſaid as to the Land , we
are willing you ſhould ſettle all the Lands below the New-Fort, and
hope you will go on in ſettling them with Courage and a good Spirie :
You have Land enough below the New-Fort, without going any fur-
We have told you our Hearts ; we hope you will not
will nor ſertle
any
fur-
ther up the River ; the Indians hunt on both sides of us, we have but
a little Space; we deſire to live as Brothers.
dintre
Commiſi. We deſire to live in Peace with you, and like Brethren:
We and you have always built on Governor Dummer's Treaty, and
look'd
upon it as a good one ; by that Treaty, we are allowed to ſettle,
where former Settlements have been made by the Engliſh, and to have
all the Lands they have heretofore purchaſed of the Indians ; and they
were then freely given up and confirmed to the Engliſh.
Indians. All the Indians like Governor Dummer's Treaty very well.
We freely give Liberty to fettle all the Lands below the New. Fort, buc
we want the Lands above for to Hunt
upon,
and get a Living by
Commiffa
. As your Forefathers fold theſe Lands to the Engliſh, and
they were paid for by them ; why are you againſt our feedling them ?
The Engliſh have no Deſign to diſturb you in your Hunting & Fiſhing,
but would always be glad to receive you into their Houſes, and live
peaceably with you.
lebs als al benoisagra
Indians. The Reaſon is, we get our Living on theſe Lands, and if
the Engliſh ſhould ſettle on them, it would drive away ourGame ;. which
has been the caſe with Reſpect to the Lands between Richmond and the
Sea.
ameras SM bo S I
Commiſt.° It will appear plainly to any indifferent Judges, that we
og ung
have fairly purchaſed theſe Lands from your Forefathers, and as we
don't deſire to abridge you of your Rights, ſo we expect you will nop
diſturb us in ours. Corest bas otiupaa Tiwboy stilab's
Upon the whole of what you have ſaid , you don't pretend to deny,
heind Iliw poygad on sduob a
but that the Purchaſes made by the Engliſh were fair and honeſt.
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Indians. We don't think theſe Deeds are falſe ; but we apprehend
you got the Indians drunk, and ſo took the Advantage of them, when
you bought the Lands.
Kudul yas
dui vos og bloodb
Commiſſi. It was not ſo ; the Engliſh fettled before your Eyes, and
Nothing was then ſaid againſt it, but your Anceſtors allowed of it. 101
Indians. We had no Religion in thatDay, and uſed to buy only Rum
WqY 900
and Wampum. di wolary: and used to
:
Commiſi. There was no Rum at that Time, the whole Trade then
carried on was in Corn, Cloathing and Proviſion.
Indians. We know of a Man that occaſionally traded at Teconnock,
he built a Tent there. La nod x adisibul 3m
25 gwil otib sw : 9 luni a
Commiſi. Above a Hundred Years ago, the Government built a
Truck-Houſe at Teconnock at the Indians Deſire ; and there was more
Trade carried on in that Day, than there is now in all the Truck-Houſes
put together. Og 016
Lion 5150
Indians. There was a Trade then, but we know of no Lands ſold at
that Timne. There was no Religion in thar Day.
Commiſſ. You ſaw the Writings Yeſterday, and then faid, you knew
the Names of many of them that gave the Deeds. Your Forefathers
were honeſt Men, and held the Religion of Juſtice. abre od news
Indians. We ſhould be glad to know how much Money was paid for
theſe Lands. You ſay that you have bought them?
not bisa ayol
Commiffi. No doubt they had the full Value of them, the Deeds ſay ſo.
Indians. What is the Reaſon the Sum they were ſold for, was not
mentioned in the Deeds.
215551
Commiffi
. It was the Cuſtom among the Engliſh in that Day not to
mention any Sum; but he that fold the Land acknowledged he was
ſatisfied and contented.
SOU
wa
Ongewaſgone. I am an old Man, and never heard any of them ſay
theſe Lands were fold. Aber man, and never hea
op bao uliktsto. molt abas stadi batsdorug vist
Commiſſi, We are fully ſatisfied theſe Lands were fairly purchaſed of
the Indians : We deſire you will enquire and ſearch into it, and then
we doubt not, but you will be ſatisfied of the Juſtice of our Claim ;
and that we ſhall live in Peace and like Brethren.
anod bas ist 9199 Agnes, en Whenesislər 1 sdaad iud
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ano ano
Indians. We will enquire of our old Men, and make what Enquiry
we can reſpecting the Lands; and what we hear and fee, will inform
you
of.
of the area
Commiſſi. Are you ready to ſign the Ratification of the Articles of
Peace made and concluded on at Caſco-Bay, in 1749. and ratified and
confirmed by you the laſt Year at St. George's.
Indians. We are ready.
Commiſſ. We expected that the Arraſagonticook Tribe of Indians would
have been here, but as they are not, we would inform you, that if they
will come to Richmond, and ſign a Ratification of the aforeſaid Articles
of Peace, which we have left with Capt. Lithgow, they ſhall receive a
Preſent from the Government ; which ſhall be left with him for
them.
sd 379191
Indians. We will inform them of what you ſay. Erat audio
6
Quenois. I would ſay one World more.
Hoy
di 2017
DU 29 no
Our young Men are very apt to get drunk: We deſire you would
give Orders to Capt. Lithgow, not to let any one of them have any more
Run than one Quart in two Days.
Commiſji. We are well pleaſed with what you ſay. We are ſenſible
of the miſchievous Conſequence, of your young Men's having too much
Rum.
DE HOY 19 To Jay on blbow nothing
Capt. Lithgow being preſent. illim
ons born and
We now give Orders to Capt. Lithgow before you, not to let your
young Men have any more Rum than you have now deſired they
ſhould have.
2 nuoti
The Conference being now ended ; the Preſent ordered them by the
Government was delivered them accordingly.
Whereupon the Commiſſioners took Leave of the Indians ; imbarked
on Board the Sloop, and proceeded for Boſtov.
outros se til
Cocong stor grad
to addy'l mit srost od mod ang lowers
orlydin Atteſt.
Atteſt. Ezekiel Price, Clerk Commiſſi.
1515 29.11 bottabad
VOL 1
sa tuo ch gibtoo A
Bluod plahog I noul an von gfors 21831214 de admitib o hi
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pen
CHOR
I W DO
His Excellency's Letter to the Penobſcott and Nor-
baridgawock Tribes of Indians, referred to in the fore-
going Conferences, is as follows. DOK O bomo
651 918
Brethren of Penobſcott and Norridgawock,
T my Return to my Government, I found Letters from you to
A А Lieutenant Governor Phips, dated the 6th of July laſt, from St.
George's-Fort, and the 13th of the fame Month from Fort-Rich .
mond, in which you deſire that the Conference between this Government
and your Tribes may be ſooner this Year than it was laſt Fall, as that
was held in your Hunting Seaſon, when but few of you could attend
it, which created Jealouſies and Diſſatisfaction among thoſe that were
abfent : And in the Lecrer from St. George's-Fort,it is particularly ſigni-
fy’d, That if I was returned to Boſton, you ſhould be glad you might
“ ſee me, which would be a great Satisfaction to you.”
In Anſwer to theſe Letters, I informed you in mine dated the 11th
of August, of my Arrival at Boſton; and that the Buſineſs of my Go-
vernment would not permit me to meet you in Perſon this Year; but
that I ſhould endeavour to ſend Commiſſioners to you as early as poſſible,
with the Preſents which this Government hath agreed to diſtribute an-
nually among you, ſo long as you ſhall maintain good Faith & Friend-
fhip with it. And I have ſince receiv’d Letters from you in Anſwer to it,
dated Auguſt 23d from St. George's, and the 20th from Richmond, wherein
you tell me, you rejoice at my Return from Great-Britain, that you are
ſorry the Buſineſs of my Government will not admit of my meeting you
this Year; that you like the Contents of my Letter very much, and de-
fire that the Commiſſioners may be ſent to you early in this Month,
which Time the Norridgawock Tribe inforın me, will ſuit the St. Francois
Indians well, ſome of them fent me at the ſame Time a Preſent of a
defire to be admitted to the Conference and Treaty with us.
According to your Deſire, Brethren, and my Promiſe to you, I now
fend you Commiſſioners to brighten the Covenant Chain between us,
and to distribute the Preſents among you, as ſoon as I poſſibly could.
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and that he would
I muſt now, Brethren, acquaint you that I have receiv'd a Letter from
the Jeſuit Pierre Gounon, the French Miffionary to Penobſcott Tribe,
dated the 25th of Auguſt laft,from St. George's Fort, in which he tells me,
« That he underſtands I deſign to have a Treaty with you, and deſires
“ me not to mention this Interview any more ; that he had a great Deal
os of Trouble ſince the laſt Interview, to prevent the Jealouſy of thoſe
“ Indians who were not preſent at it, from having a very miſchievous
• Effect; and that the moſt ſure Way to maintain Peace between you
66 and us, would be for to let him know our Will, and
- takeCare to let me know your's ; and be intreats me, that if I write
to him, and think proper to pay any Regard to what he ſhall write to
me in Anſwer, that it may be tranſacted between us as ſecretly as is
poſſible, for that he deſired nothing fo much as to maintain Peace:"?
As you will ſee by his Letter under his own Hand.
I muſt alſo apprize you, that I have receiv'd a Letter from an Engliſh-
man, informing me, that the ſame Jeſuit aſſur'd him, a War would ſoon
break out between the two Nations, and between us and
d you, and urg'd
him to write to me, to prevent the Commiſſioners from coming to treat
with you, and that he made him promiſe, that he would not let you
know what he ſaid, nor that he had wrote to me.
This Letter and Suggeſtions of the Jefuit, Brethren, the plain Deſign
of which is to prevent this Government from having any Treaty with
you, and conſequently from making you the Preſents which they have
promiſed to give you from Year to Year; being ſo contrary to De-
lire expreſs'd in your Letter to me, and to the Friendſhip which this
Government hath for you, and is deſirous to maintain with you :
thought proper, tho' this Prieſt deſires they may be kept ſecret from
you, to communicate to you by che Commiſſioners, that you may judge
for your felves, Whether inſtead of aſing his Endeavours to preſerve
Peace between us, as he ſolemnly, profeffes in his Letter, he is not uſing
Artifices to break it ; Whether he is really ſeeking to promote your
Welfare by doing thus, or the Intereſt of the French at your Coſt, and
how far you may confide in the Sincerity of this holy Father
, your
Confeffor. oral si diacom on our
Do I can further aſſure, Brethren, that this Prieſt's Suggeſtion, that War
will ſoon break out tetween the twoNations, is groundleſs, and that there
was no Sign of it in France, whilſt I was there about a Year ago, nor
in England, which I left a few Months ſince: I doubt not but the French
may be deſirous of involving you and us in a War, if they can, by their
Artifices ; but I have Reaſon to think, that they will not be fond of en-
tering into a War themſelves with us very ſoon, leaſt they ſhould looſe
Canada in it, as they did Cape-Breton in the laſt.
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I have only to add, that if the Buſineſs of my Government will permit,
I will endeavour to have the Satisfaction of an Interview with you my-
ſelf the next Year, and recommend it to you, to preſerve Peace and
good Faith with us in the mean Time, in which Caſe you may depend
upon all reaſonable Acts of Kindneſs and Friendſhip on the Part of this
forcrament, for promoting your
Welfare and Proſperity.
UO
I am, Brethren,
Boſton, September 18. 1753.
63. bus
Your aſured Friend,
SHIRLEY
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Tranſlation of the French Jeſuit's Letter, to His Ex-
nCELLENCY, referred to in the foregoing Conferences,
is as follows.
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SIR,
1
Peace and Love from our Lord Jeſus Chriſ,
Iyi
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II
Underſtand, you deſire a Treaty with the Indians of Penobſcott.
Permic me, Sir, to beg of you, not to mention this Interview any
more, becauſe the Indians being always either Hunting or Travelling,
it is difficult for them all to be preſent at this Interview, and Jealouſy
may cauſe ſome or other of them to do Miſchief. I had a great deal of
Trouble after the laſt Incerview, to prevent the Jealouſy of thoſe who
were not preſent at it, from having a very bad Effect. The moſt ſure
Way to maintain Peace between you and the Indians, would be to let
me know your Will, and I would take Care to let you know that of the
Indians. Í fray only,that if you write to me, and if you think fit to pay
any Regard to what I ſhall Anſwer, we may do it as fecretly as poſſible,
for I deſire nothing ſo much, as to maintain the Peace now fubfiſting.
I will do all I can to this End, being no more engag‘d for the Service
of the King of France, than I arn for that of the King of England. lliu
"1001095 TL Juod I am with Reſpeet in Chriſt Jeſus,
da Fort St. George, ob
lil Your moſt humble,
e Aug: 25. 1753. W s nize bus ue And most obedient Servant,
to Boots lliw vada tudieninis o col S. Peter Gounon,
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