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care that his People do not cheat us.

6th: May 1765.
The several Nations assembled to give their
answer
Present as before.
The Onondaga Speaker addressed Sir Wm.
Johnson (first repeating all he had said to them
at the former Congresses]

Brother,
We are now assembled to answer what you
said to us Yesterday regarding the Boundary Line,
concerning which we have not given you __
satisfaction. We hope we shall now please
you better, & we beg you will attend to our
answer, & pardon our mistakes and the ___
manner of our expression; as we have always
been accustomed to speak our thoughts freely;
the [rather] as we heard from the French, that
you had designs upon us; & we heard from you
that they had the same; but of late we find
you both had the like motives.

At length we have agreed together for
ourselves, our Wives, & Children, to make a
cession to the King of the Lands we shall now
describe.

"Beginning at Owegy [underlined] on the East __
Branch of the Susquehanna; thence down the
[East Side - underlined] of the River Shamokin [underlined] (or Fort
Augusta); and running up the [West Branch - underlined]
of Susquehanna, on the [South Side - underlined]
thereof


Date: 2 May 1765

Retrieval no.: Commissioner of Public Records — Mi'kmaq and Government Relations series Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 volume 430 number 22 1/2

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