When the English first entered Pennsylvania messengers from the Conestoga Indians met them, bidding them welcomc, and bringing gifts of eorn and venison and skins. tribe entered into a treaty of friendship with William Penn, which was to last "as long as the sun should shine or the The whole waters rnn into the rivers."

The records of Pennsylvania history in the beginning of the eighteenth century contain frequent mention of the tribe. Iu 1705 the governor sent the sccretary of his council, with a del egation of ten men, to hold an interview with them at Cones toga, for purposes of mutual understanding and confidence. And in that same ycar Thomas Chalklcy, a famons Quaker preacher, while sojonning among the Maryland Quakers, was suddenly seized with so great a "conceru" to visit these Tn- dians that he laid the matter before the elders at the Notting ham meeting; and, the idea being "promoted" by the elders, he set off with an interpreter and a party of fourteen to mnako the journey. IHe says: "We travclled through the woods abont fifty miles, carryinge journey sat down by a river and sproad our food on the grass, and refreshed ourselves and horses, and then went on eheer provisions witl us; and on the our fully and with good-will and much love to the poor Indians. And when we came kindly, treating us civilly they reccived us in their way. We treated about having a inceting with them in a religious way; upon which they called a council, in which