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our Indyans have any particular knowledge of you which should be Best Known to yourselves.

2 & 3. Having already taken Fitting orders hope the Maquaes &c will do their Duty as they ought to this Goverment on all Occasions and cannot be Subject

to two.

4th Think it strange that you should ask to treat with any Branch of this Government apart and upon your own Accot And Notwithstanding y Neighbourhood and all my Endeavours unasked that you have hitherto and Still Keep mee a stranger to all the Concerns of your said Indyans Warr.

New York April 10th 1676.

No 52. At a Councell October y 11th 1676
Present.

The Governo

The Secretary

Cap! Brockholls

Cap: Dyre

Mr Philips

Cap: T. Delavall,

Major Treat Deputy Governor of Conecticott being present.

Proposes that one or more of the Maquaes Sachem may come to some of their Towns to renew friendship that they may Acknowledge their Kindness in assisting them against their Enemy y North Indyans and Gratify them and that Prisoners of the North Indyans are in this Governm may be delivered up to him.

It is alledged the Governor received none till themselves made Proclamation to receive all those that would Come in and that he hath Security for them he hath Received.

And that the Maquaes are our Indyans and are so to be acknowledged and will be of ill Consequence for the Maquaes to Treat or to make application to another Government the which will breed a distraction amongst them.

No 53.

At a Councill April 2d 1677

The Governor proposes a voyage to Albany it being

a Leysure time and a Necessity of going this year. The which concluded on. That Letters be written to Boston and Conecticutt about the Governours going up now to Albany and the Maquaes.

1683

No. 54. From Book of Entries Letter C N° 18-1682 Entered for Henry Coursey Esq' this following Commission May 31 1677.

THOMAS NOTLEY Esq Lieutenant and Chief Governour of the Province of Maryland under the Rht Hon! Charles absolute Lord and Proprietary of the Provinces of Maryland and Avalon, Lord Baron of Baltimore &c. To all to whome these Presents shall come or any way appertain Greeting in our Lord God everlasting. Whereas the Sasquahannoks Cinnigos and divers others Nations of Indyans Inhabitting to the Northward of this Province have Formerly committed divers murders and other outrages within this Province upon which there hath ensued a warr between his Mate Subjects resïding within this Province under the Governm his said Lordship as well as with those residing under the Governm of his sacred Mats Colony of Virginia and the said Susquahannos and whereas the said Susquahannos have sithence and lately desired to Come to a treaty of Peace with his said Lordshipp and have (as I am informed) since ye said overture and submitted themselves to, and put themselves under the protection of the Cinnigos or some other Nation of Indyans residing to the Northward of this Province and within or near unto the Territoryes of his Royal Highness the Duke of York Know Yee that I have constituted Ordeyned appointed and authorized, as I do hereby Constitute Ordain & appoint and Authorize Henry Coursey Esq' one of his Lordshipps Councell for this Province as Embassador or Envoy to Treate with and conclude a form! peace with the said Susquahannos Cinnigos or any other Indyans now unknown to or Inhabitting or Residing to th Northward of us within or without the Territoryes of his said Royal Highnesse and from whom wee have already received Injury, or may hereafter reasonably sus

pect We may receive Injury by the Confederacy between them and the said Susquahannos upon such reasonable terms as to them shall seem meet, and convenient according to his Instructions. And forasmuch as the said Indyans do now Reside for the most part wthin the Territory of his said Royal Highness or at least cannott be treated with but by a Journey to be had through his said Highness, his Territory and I do hereby constitute ordain appoint and authorize the said Henry Coursey to treat with Edmund Andros Esq seigneur of sausmarez and Lieut. and Governo: Genrall under his Royall Highnesses James Duke of York and Albany &c. of all his Territory under his Governm! to the treaty with the Indyans aforesaid and to request his assistance in the procuring of a firm and lasting Peace for all his Matis subjects in his mates colony of Virginia as well as for those of his Province with the Indyans aforesaid Wherefore I do request that the aforesaid Henry Coursey (according to the Laws of nations) may be Received creditted and believed Promising to Ratify confirm and approve whatsoever shall be done by him in the Premises according to this my commission as if it were done by myself: Given at St Maryes under my hand and the Great Seal of this Province this thirtyeth day of aprill in the second year of his Lordshipps Dominion Anno Domini 1677.

THOMAS NOTLEY

No 55. At a Council held at Fort James in New York October the 9th year 1683.

Present.

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The Governor acquainted the Sachem of the Ma quais, that the reason he sent for them was to tell

them that the King and his Royall Highness had a great kindness for them, and that he himself would be gladd to have a good Correspondence and Friendshipp with them as other Governors before had, and spoke to them to treat no more with the ffrench, nor goe there if sent for without leave of his Government and to permit no ffrenchmen to live amongst then except the Jesuits and each of them a man and such as shall have a passe from the Governor of New York and a Seal (of which they are to have a mark in wax) and that they should strive to bring as many of their friends as they could from the ffrench Government and to make peace with those Indians they now warre against and trade with them, and if it be thought fitt the Governor will send one with them, and that they bring the trade to this Govern the Governor further required of them to tell him what the ffrench said to them when they sent for them to Canada, and they are allso to acquaint the rest of their neighbours with what hath been now imparted to them the Governor promissing them that he will allways look upon them as his children and treat them with all respect and Kindness accordingly, and by par ticular order from the King of Great Britain and his Royall Highness our Master.

The Indians being asked if they were only for the Maquas, they answered yes; and came from the three Castles of the Maquas, their names were Odianah, Rodie Yo non droh Ninok Ogar and Hugar, the names of the queens were Caunichack Ouyodah harah, they first produced a Wampum girdle, and presented it to the Governor to show their sorrow for the Death of Captain Clark they said he was a Brave man and treated them as they are now treated in this fort, and was all one as a Maquas.

The Governor returned them thanks and said the successor of Clarke should be as kind to them as ever he was, and they shall receive all the kindness from this Government, as if they were children of so Great a King as his ma" of England, they thanked the

Governor for the title of children and the Governor accepts their tokens.

The Speech of the Sachim Odianah. That as soone as they received the message they came hither, and are very glad to be so well received and that his ma" hath so great a Kindness for them, as for the Indians that are gon to Canada they are very gladd his Hon! speaks of it and they will endeavour to get them back againe they desire the Governors assistance in it that they may go hand in hand to promote it and they doubt not to get them back again.

That when they were sent for hither they did not know what might be proposed to them &c for Corlear's proposition to make Peace with those Indians they war against they say, that as soone as they come home they will have a general meeting of all the Castles and will tell them what is here proposed, and doubt not but it shall be Effected, for the former Governor said the same, and they obeyed and made peace, and why should it not be also at this time performed for they have been allways obedient to his Govern. That his honor having told them to have an eye to the ffrenchmen, they give his Hono! their thanks and will allways have an eye to those people, and they desire if any thing happen to be informed for they are and have been allways belong ing to this Goverm and expect no favour from the ffrench, but will put themselves under his Honor protection, that the Governor having wondered why they bring so little Beaver and formerly did bring so much, and that it may be the Governor thinks they carry it to some other Government they answer no, they do not, they never had so firm a Friendship with any, as with this Govrn, but the true reason is they having a war with other Indians there Indians would not dare to come on their hunting places, but now they are all in peace, the Indians catch away their Beaver so fast that there be but very few left, His Hono! having told them they should harbour no ffrench, but the Jesuits and each of them a man, they answer they will never suffer any

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