The Honourable _Edm. Jennings_, Esq; } _Philip Thomas_, Esq; } Commissioners Colonel _Robert King_, } of _Maryland_. Colonel _Thomas Colville_, }
The Deputies of the _Onandagoes, Senecas, Cayogoes, Oneidas_ and _Tuscaroraes_.
The Governor and the Commissioners took some of the _Indian_ Chiefs by the Hand, and, after they had seated themselves, the Governor bid them welcome into the Government; and there being Wine and Punch prepared for them, the Governor and the several Commissioners drank Health to the _Six Nations_; and _Canassatego, Tachanoontia_, and some other Chiefs, returned the Compliments, drinking the Healths of _Onas_[1], _Assaragoa_[2], and the Governor of _Maryland_.
After they were all served with Wine, Punch, Pipes and Tobacco, the Governor told the _Indians_, that as it was customary, and indeed necessary, they should have some Time to rest after so long a Journey, and as he thought three Days would be no more than sufficient for that Purpose, he proposed to speak to them on _Monday_ next; after which, the honourable Commissioners would take their own Time to deliver what they had to say.
_C A N A S S A T E G O_ answered the Governor: We thank you for giving us Time to rest; we are come to you, and shall leave it intirely to you to appoint the Time when we shall meet you again. We likewise leave it to the Governor of _Maryland_, by whose Invitation we came here, to appoint a Time when he will please to mention the Reason of his inviting us. As to our Brother _Assaragoa_, we have at this present Time nothing to say to him; not but we have a great deal to say to _Assaragoa_, which must be said at one Time or another; but not being satisfied whether he or we should begin first, we shall leave it wholly to our Brother _Onas_ to adjust this between us, and to say which shall begin first.
[Footnote 1: _Onas_, the Governor of _Pensylvania_.]
[Footnote 2: _Assaragoa_, the Governor of _Virginia_.]
In the C o u r t-H o u s e at _Lancaster, June_ 25, 1744. _A. M._
The Honourable _G E O R G E T H O M A S_, Esq; Governor, &c. The Honourable the Commissioners of _Virginia_. The Honourable the Commissioners of _Maryland_. The Deputies of the _Six Nations_. _Conrad Weiser_, Interpreter.