8 HISTORY OF valid on our parts, with the several other humble requests contaiucd in our said speech. And whereas, at the settling of the said Line, it appeared that the Line described by His Majesty's permission, was not extended to the Northward of Oswegy, or to the Southward of the Glreat Kanhawa river, we have agreed to and continued the Line to the Northward, on a supposition that it was omitted by reason of our not hav- ing come to any determination concerning its course, at the congress held in one thousand seven hundred and sixty-five ; and in as much as the Line to the Northward became the most necessary of any, for preventing encroachments at our very Towns and Residences, we have given the Line more favorably to Pennsylvania, for the reasons and considerations mentioned in the Treaty; we have likewise continued it South to Chero- kee River, because the same is and we declare it to be our true Bounds with the Southern Indians, and that we have an undoubted right to the country as far South as that River, which makes the cession to His Majesty much more advan- tageous than that proposed. Now therefore know ye, that we, the Sachems and Chiefs aforementioned. Native Indians or Proprietors of the Lands hereinafter described, for and in behalf of ourselves and the whole of our Confederacy, for the considerations hereinbefore mentioned, and also for and in consideration of a valuable present of the several articles in use amongst Indians, which, together wdth a large sum of money, amount in the whole to the sum of ten thousand four hundred and sixty pounds seven shillings and three pence sterling, to us now delivered and paid by Sir William John^ son, Baronet, His Majesty's sole Agent and Superintendant of Indian Afi"airs for the Northern Department of America, in the name and on behalf of our Sovereign Lord, George the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France and Ire- land, King, Defender of the Faith, the receipt whereof we do hereby acknowledge, we, the said Indians, have for us and
