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the Shawanese, enetered into articles of agreement with Wm. Penn, by which, on certain conditions of peaceable and friendly behaviour, they were permitted to settle about the head of Potomac, in Pennsylvania. The Conestoga chiefs, also, in 1701, ratified the grant of the Susquehanna Indians made the preceding year of 1700. Wm. Penn obtained from the Sachems of the country a confirmation of grants made by former Indians of the lands from Duck Creek to the mountains, and from the Delaware to the Susquehanna; in this deed the Sachems declared that they had seen and heard read divers prior deeds which had been given to Wm. Penn by former chiefs. In the year 1672, Gov. Lovelace, of New York, by proclamation, ordered that four white grains or beads, and three black ones shall pass for a penny or stiver; this proclamation was published at Albany, Esopus, Delaware, Long Island, and at the ports adjacent; and that wampum was a passing medium of the country at that time. A treaty was entered into at the mouth of the Great Miami, between the United States and the Shawanese Nation, in the year 1786, by which the United States do allot them lands with their territory to live and hunt upon. Be-ginning at the south line of the lands allotted to the Wyandots and Delawares, at the place where the main of the Great Miami and of the