THE OHIO VALLEY-GREAT LAKES ETHNOHISTORY ARCHIVES: THE
MIAMI COLLECTION
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Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology, but are, rather,
indicative of thought in that historical moment during which the
document was published.
(1754)
Enclosure #2 in John Mercer to George Mercer,
March 3, 1768 in: Mulkearn, George Mercer
Papers, University of Pittsburgh Press,
1954, pp. 233-286.
p. 246.
Most humbly Sheweth, That by the treaty of Lancaster and also by deed bearing date the 2d of July 1744, the northern Indians by the name of the six nations (who claimed all the lands west of Virginia and also to and on the waters of the Mississippi and the lakes by right of conquest from several nations of Indians who formerly inhabited that countrey and have been extirpated by the said six nations) did yield up and make over and forever quit claim to your Majesty and your successors all the said Lands west of Virginia with all the right thereto, so far as your Majesty should at any time thereafter be pleased to extend the said colony.
That most of the nations of Indians west of the mountains and upon the lakes and the river Ohio have enter'ed into Alliance with your Majestys Subjects and with the six nations in freindship with the British Colony's and have desired your Majestys subejcts the In habitants of Virginia to send them British goods and manufactures as they incline to trade solely with your Majestys subjects.
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