Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III HE MEETS GREAT MEN IN COUNCIL Early in the spring of 1754 Logan was sent with a message to the Six Nations and to invite them to meet at Albany in the summer with the agents of the Proprietaries for the purpose of purchasing some land from them. Such negotiations were usually called making a treaty. The preliminary arrangements for the meeting were all made by him to the satisfaction of both the Six Nations and the Proprietaries and a great council was held at Albany during the summer. The Province of Pennsylvania was represented by Governor John Penn, Benjamin Franklin, Richard Peters and Isaac Norris, and Logan was the speaker for the Shamokins and Cayugas. A treaty was agreed upon and duly executed. After the council had ended he sent a message to Brother Onas, as he called the Governor, in December informing the latter of his appointment at the treaty on June fourteenth as the agent of the Six Nations to care for their lands atWyoming and on the west branch of the Susque- hanna. At another meeting of the Council with the same distinguished men of the Province present, July sixth, for the design to purchase all the lands from the Susquehanna on the east to the western boundary of William Penn's province, which was then the Ohio line, the igents of the government were told that Shamokin and Wyoming would not be sold. They reserved these for their own people as hunting grounds and Logan was appointed to take care of them. He was not to allow any whites to settle on either of the two reserved tracts or on land contiguous to them on the Susquehanna. The negotiations were finished and the treaty made by which that large territory was purchased from the Indians for the insignificant sum of four hundred pounds sterling. And on that memorable July sixth Logan signe...