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to [?] re: trade with Indians

Burnet discusses an Act forbidding the 5 Nations to trade with the French, and how the Indians must take an oath in acknowledgement of this Act. He also desires to find some new interpreters, as he is suspicious of Laurence Claese; and he hopes to...

GLC03107.02159

Propositions to the River and Skachtkook Indians with an answer [in Dutch]

GLC03107.02145

Propositions to the 5 Nations

William Burnet, the Governor of Pennsylvania, invites the 5 Nations to renew the covenant chain between them. He recalls an unhappy incident in which 2 men from Pennsylvania killed an Indian of the 5 Nations in the midst of an argument over the sale...

GLC03107.02146

Propositions to the 5 Nations [in Dutch]

GLC03107.02147

to Lieut. Harme Vedder re: commission to travel to the Seneca's country

Burnet appoints Vedder to travel to the Seneca's country with Abraham Schuyler for a period of 12 months, during which time he is to follow all orders and directions given to him. Marked as a copy on the docket.

GLC03107.02149