Minutes of Conference with Indians at Philadelphia

              At a Conference held with the Indians in Philadelphia
in the Council Chamber on Wednesday the 22d March 1750
Present
The Honourable William Denny Esqr. Lieutenant Governor
[Column 1]
Robert Strettell
Benjamin Shoemake
Joseph Turner
William Logan
[Column 2]
Richard Peters
Lynford Lardner
Thomas Cadwalader
}Esquires [referring to column 2]
The Speaker with several Members of the Assembly
Several Inhabitants of the City
The same Indians as before
Conrad Weiser, Esquire
Isaac Still, Interpreter
The Governor addressing himself to Teedyuscung said
Brother Teedyuscung
I have with great attention considered what you said
to me on Wednesday last, and as it was an affair of such
great Importance, I consulted my Council, and also laid it
before the Assembly. I desire you, & ^all^ the rest of your brethren
the Indians, would carefully attend to what I am going to say.
A String.
Brother Teedyuscung, all your Counsellors that are with you,
& also the Messengers from the Ohio, hear me.
"The other Day, you put me in Mind of what passed at
Easton, at the last Treaty; & I find that you remembered 
your Promise very well, I find also, by what you have said,
that you have published the Treaty of Peace far and wide,
into every part of the Indian Country, and that to your 
own, & our great Satisfaction, those Indian Nations, have 
accepted the Peace Belt, & have sent to you the Calumet Pipe
that, from old Times, has been made use of on such good occasions,
& desire you to fill it with good Tobacco, and smoak[sic] it with
your Brother at Philadelphia, and always to smoak[sic] it 
with me, whenever any dark Clouds should at any Time 
arise."
Brother 
This News gives me, & all of us, the greatest Pleasuyre
and we receive it from your Hands, as a Token that you
are