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APPENDIX NO. I.

PEED TO KING GEORGE THE FIRST RECITING THE SURRENDER BY THE FIVE NATIONS OF THEIR BEAVER HUNT-ING COUNTRY, AND CONTAINING AN ACTUAL SURRENDER OF THE CASTLES OR HABITATIONS OF THE SENNECAS,CA YOU GAS AND ONONDAGAS.

To all People to whom this present Instrument ot Writing shall come.

Whereas the Sachems of the Five Nations did on the 19 th day of July One Thousand Seven Hun-dred and One in a Conference held at Albany , Between John Nanfan Esq r late Lieutenant Governorof the Province of New York give and render up All their Land where the Beaver Hunting is, whichthey won with the Sword then Eighty years ago to Coorachkoo Our Great King praying that he mightbe their Protector and Defender there for which they desired that their Secretary might then drawan instrument for them to sign and seal that it might be carried to the King as by the Minutes thereofnow in the Custody of the Secretary for Indian Affairs at Albany may more fully and at large appear—We Kanakazighton and Shanintzarouwee Sinneke Sachims, Ottsoghkoree, DeKanisoree and Aenje-weeratt Cayouge Sachims, Rachjakadorodon and Sadegeenaghtie, Confirm, Submit and Grant And bythese presents do (for Ourselves, our Heirs and Successors and in behalf of the whole Nations ofSinnekes, Cayouges and Onnondages,) ratify, Confirm and Submit and Grant unto our most Sovereign Lord George by the Grace of God, King of Great Britain France & Ireland, Defender of the Faith&c. His Heirs and Successors for ever All the said Land & Beaver Hunting to be protected & Defendedby his said Majesty, His Heirs and Successors to and for the Use of Us, our Heirs and Successors,And the said three Nations ; And we do also of our own accord tree & voluntary Will give, render,submit and grant, and by these presents do for Ourselves our Heirs and Successors give, render,submit and Grant unto our said Sovereign Lord King George , his Heirs & Successors for ever,that Land lying & being sixty Miles Distance taken Directly from the Water into the Country, Be-ginning from a Creek called Canahogue on the Lake Oswego , all along the said Lake and all along theNarrow passage from the said Lake to the Falls of Oniagara called Canaguaraghe and all along theRiver of Oniagara and all along the Lake Catarackqui to the Creek called Sodoms belonging to theSenekes & from Sodoms to the Hill called Tegerhunkserode belonging to the Cayouges a “ dTegerhunckserode to the Creek called Caynunghage belonging to the Onnondages All the sald anbeing of the Breadth of sixty English miles as aforesaid. All the way from the a 0

Rivers directly into the Country and thereby including all the Castles of the aforesai ^ee a on ®with all the Rivers, Creeks & Lakes within the said Limits to be protected and defended by ins saidMajesty his Heirs and Successors for ever to and for Our Use our Heirs and Successors & He saidThree Nations. . ,

In Testimony Whereof We have hereunto set our Marks and aflixed our Seals m the City oi Albany this Fourteenth Day of September in the Thirteenth year of His Majesty’s Reign Anno Donum 1726.