We have confirmed the Peace with the _Cherikees_, but not with the _Catawbas_. They have been treacherous, and know it; so that the War must continue till one of us is destroyed. This we think proper to tell you, that you may not be troubled at what we do to the _Catawbas_.
We will now speak to the Point between us. You say you will agree with us as to the Road; we desire that may be the Road which was last made (the Waggon-Road.) It is always, a Custom among Brethren or Strangers to use each other kindly; you have some very ill-natured People living up there; so that we desire the Persons in Power may know that we are to have reasonable Victuals when we are in want.
You know very well, when the white People came first here they were poor; but now they have got our Lands, and are by them become rich, and we are now poor; what little we have had for the Land goes soon away, but the Land lasts for ever. You told us you had brought with you a Chest of Goods, and that you have the Key in your Pockets; but we have never seen the Chest, nor the Goods that are said to be in it; it may be small, and the Goods few; we want to see them, and are desirous to come to some Conclusion. We have been sleeping here these ten Days past, and have not done any thing to the Purpose.
The Commissioners told them they should see the Goods on _Monday_.
In the C o u r t-H o u s e at _Lancaster, June_ 30, 1744, _P. M._
The Honourable _G E O R G E T H O M A S_, Esq; Governor, &c. The Honourable Commissioner of _Virginia_. The Honourable the Commissioners of _Maryland_. The Deputies of the _Six Nations_. _Conrad Weiser_, Interpreter.
The three Governments entertained the _Indians_, and all the Gentlemen in Town, with a handsome Dinner. The _Six Nations_, in their Order, having returned Thanks with the usual Solemnity of _Yo-ha-han_, the Interpreter informed the Governor and the Commissioners, that as the Lord Proprietor and Governor of _Maryland_ was not known to the _Indians_ by any particular Name, they had agreed, in Council, to take the first Opportunity of a large Company to present him with one; and as this with them is deemed a Matter of great Consequence, and attended with Abundance of Form, the several Nations had drawn Lots for the Performance of the Ceremony, and the Lot falling on the _Cayogo_ Nation, they had chosen _Gachradodow_, one of their Chiefs, to be their Speaker, and he desired Leave to begin; which being given, he, on an elevated Part of the Court-House, with all the Dignity of a Warrior, the Gesture of an Orator, and in a very graceful Posture, said that: