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" Cousins know this, and that you promised to go away as soon as you drove the French away, and yet you stay there, and build Houses, and make it stronger and stronger every Day; for this Reason we entirely deny your Request; you shall not have a Road this... "
Memoirs of the Life of Anthony Benezet - Page 70
by Roberts Vaux - 1817 - 136 pages
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Minutes of the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania: From the ..., Volume 8

Pennsylvania. Provincial Council - 1852 - 810 pages
...know this, & that you promised to go away as soon as you drove the French away, & yet you stay there & build Houses, and make it stronger and stronger every...your request ; you shall not have a road this Way." A Belt. To which the Governor answered : " Brother : " This request did not arise from me; I only mention...
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Anthony Benezet. From the original memoir [by Roberts Vaux]: revised, with ...

Anthony Benezet, Roberts VAUX - 1859 - 172 pages
...Indians, who were then present) know this. You promised to go away as soon as you drove the French away, and yet you stay there and build houses, and...a road this way.' " Upon the whole, it is thought the apprehension the Indians are under, that the English intend by degrees to dispossess them of their...
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The Olden Time: A Monthly Publication Devoted to the Preservation of ...

Neville B. Craig - 1876 - 608 pages
...our lands; our cousins know this; and that you promised to go away as soon as you drove the French away, and yet you stay there and build houses, and...your request ; you shall not have a road this way." To this the governor replied that he only made the request for the benefit of the Delawares, and that...
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Contact Points: American Frontiers from the Mohawk Valley to the Mississippi ...

Andrew Robert Lee Cayton, Fredrika J. Teute - 1998 - 412 pages
...during a treaty at Lancaster in 1762; "and that you promised to go away as soon as you drove the French away, and yet you stay there and build Houses, and make it stronger and stronger every day.""4 At that same Lancaster council in August 1762, Indians tried to take Shamokin back betore it,...
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Never Come to Peace Again: Pontiac's Uprising and the Fate of the British ...

David Dixon - 2005 - 384 pages
...Cousins [the Delaware] know this, and that you promised to go away as soon as you drove the French away, and yet you stay there and build Houses, and...deny your request; you shall not have a road this Way.46 Another Iroquois spokesman bitterly complained that the English were "always longing after my...
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Benjamin Franklin, Pennsylvania, and the First Nations: The Treaties of 1736-62

Susan Kalter - 2010 - 472 pages
...our Lands; our Cousins know this, and that you promised to go away as soon as you drove the French away, and yet you stay there, and build Houses, and...your Request; you shall not have a Road this Way. A Belt. To which the Governor answered, Brethren, This Request did not arise from me; I only mentioned...
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