ry your Goods, and for a
Supply of Provisions to serve you on the Road in your Return home, where
we heartily wish you may arrive in good Health.'

After the Governor had concluded [Transcriber's Note: original has
"conclued"], Mr. _Logan_ return'd an Answer to that Part of
_Canassateego's_ Speech which related to Him, and said, 'That not only
upon the Account of his Lameness, of which the _Indians_ themselves were
Witnesses; but on Account of another Indisposition which about three
Years since had laid him under an Incapacity of expressing himself with
his former usual Freedom, he had been obliged to live retired in the
Country. But that our first Proprietor, the Honourable _William Penn_,
who had ever been a Father and true Friend to all the _Indians_, having
above Forty Years since recommended them to his particular Care, he had
always, from his own Inclination, as well as from that strict Charge,
endeavoured to convince all the _Indians_, that He was their true
Friend; and was now well pleased, that after a Tract of so many Years,
they were not insensible of it. He thanked them kindly for their
Present, and heartily joined with them in their Desires, that this
Government may always be furnished with Persons of equally good
Inclinations, and not only with such, but also with better Abilities to
serve them.'

And then _Canassateego_ said, he had forgot to mention, that
_Shickalamy_ and _Caxhayn_, had been employ'd on several Messages to
this Government, and desir'd that they might be consider'd on that
Account.

* * * * *

At a COUNCIL held the 12th of _July, P.M._ 1742.

PRESENT,

The Hon'ble GEORGE THOMAS Esq; Lieut. Governor.

_James Logan_, _Samuel Preston_, }
_Clement Plumsted_, _Thomas Lawrence_, } Esqrs;
_Samuel Hasell_, _Abraham Taylor_, }
_Robert Strettell_, }

Mr. _Richard Peters._

The Board taking into Consideration the Regulation of the necessary
Expences of the _Indians_ Travelling down hither, and Returning; and
upon an Estimate made by _Conrad Weiser_, amounting to about _One
Hundred Pounds_, it appearing that the said Sum of L100. will be
necessary to be advanced to _Conrad Weiser_ to defray those Expences,
Mr. _Logan_ on the Proprietaries Behalf, proposes to advance 40_l._ and
the Treasurer declaring he had no publick Money in his Hands, and that
if he had, he would not advance Money without the Assembly's Order; it
is