Raynors 2012-09
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A complete and authentic issue of the Gentleman’s Magazine (London), January 1759, 48pp., disbound, VG. In small part, “This day his excellency our governor returned from tbe treaty at Easton, where he had been attending with tbe governor of Pennsylvania near three weeks. There were present at the treaty 500 Indians, about 200 of whom were chief warriors, and of 13 difterent nations. There were also present two Indian messengers from the Indians settled on the Ohio, who brooght a message in writing signed by 15 chiefs of the Obis Indians, expressing their desire to have peace with the English...The conferences were carried on with great harmony. The Indians solemnly promised ro return all the English prisoners. ...” The Treaty of Easton was a colonial agreement in North America signed in October 1758 during the French and Indian War (Seven Years War). Briefly, chiefs of 13 Native American nations, representing tribes of the Iroquois, Lenape-Delaware, Shawnee and others, agreed to be allies of the British colonies during the French and Indian War (Seven Years War), already underway. In return the governments of Pennsylvania and New Jersey recognized Native rights to hunting grounds in the Ohio Valley and settlements in the Ohio Country. They promised not to establish additional settlements west of the Appalachian Mountains.
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