Your Steady, Cloſe and Faithful Friends the
Tribe of
Mohegan, and the
Tribe of Nahantick
Sendeth
greetting. —
Sincere Friends and Brethren May Talk freely
together without
offence. Such we Conclude, the Engliſh
of
Connecticut, and
Mohegans, and
Nahantick are —
Your Exellencies may well remmember, that we Sent
a Memorial to the
General Aſembly, held at
New Haven
last Octor, Requeſting, not a
[illegible]Privilledge, which we
never had before, But a Protection in in our Natural
Privillidges, which the King of Heaven Gave to our f
[gap: hole][guess: o]re
Fathers and to their Children forever, — When we receiv'd
an Anſwere or Grant to our Petition, we were all amaze
^d^ and Aſtoniſhed beyond
d
Meaſure, What?
to have only
half a Sein allowed to
M[illegible][guess: o]nooya[illegible][guess: u]hegunnewuck, from
the beſt Friends to the leaſt Friends — We are ready to Con
clude, that the meaning muſt be, that in Time to Come
we muſt not have only one Can
[illegible][guess: oo], one Bow, one Hook
and Line, among
[gap: hole][guess: ſt] two Tribes, and we muſt have
Taxes Impoſed upon us alſo, &c
&c — whileſt the Kings
Of England had authority over here they orderd no Such
things upon us
[illegible][guess: , —] alas where are we — if we were Slaves
under
Tyrants, we muſt
have
[illegible]Submitt; if we were Cap
tives we muſt be Silent and if we were Strangers we
muſt be Contented, —
^or if we had fo[illegible][guess: rfeted] our Privile[illegible] at your Hands^
^[below]by any of our agreaments we Shoud have nothing to Say^
when ever we went to war againſt
your and our Enemies, one Bow, and
^[illegible]^ Hatchet
will
^woud^ not do, for two Tribes — And what will the Various Tri
[gap: hole][guess: be][gap: worn_edge][guess: s] of Indians, of this Boundleſs Continent Say, when they
hear of this Reſtraint of Fishing upon us
[illegible][guess: ;] will they
not all Cry out mmauh, mmauh, theſe are the good
that the
Mohegans ever
gloried and Boaſted of — Certain
^ly^ We can not Hunt
[illegible][guess: to] the Public
^by fiſhing^ we never had more
^than^
tow
S
[illegible][guess: o]ins in
Mohegan and two in
Nahantick and
and many Times not one in
Mohegan for
[illegible][guess: 10] or 15 years together
and we fiſh but very little in the Seaſon —
We Conclude Your Excellencies muſh have
miſt
[illegible][guess: ook] our Requeſt
[illegible] — And therefore we earneſtly
Pray again, that the
Honorable Aſembly
woud Protect
us in our Natural Privilledges, that none may forbid
hinder, or Reſtrain us from Fiſhing in any of the where
we uſe to fiſh heretofore
[illegible] — This is the earneſt Reques
[gap: worn_edge][guess: t]
and P
[illegible][guess: i]tition of