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and promising to renounce all dealings with the people of Machias. The Indians presented Colonel Francklin with a belt of wampum in confirmation of their intention and promises, and aftewards delivered up the presents they had received from General Washington, together with the treaty lately made with the Massachusetts government, dated July 19, 1776, in which they promised to furnish 600 warriors for Washington's army. The Indians united with the English delegates in drinking the King's health. Colonel Francklin decorated the chiefs and captains with his own hands, and distributed to the rest a variety of clothing and other presents. The night, although rainy, was spent in the open air "with great mirth" under the British flag. The following day the Indians went on board the Albany man-of-war, where they again drank the King's health, and were presented with a pound of gunpowder each, and concluded the afternoon and evening on shore with great satisfaction and good humor.
Michael Francklin thus concludes his account of the proceedings:—
"The 26th [September] the Indians being on their departure were saluted at 12 o'clock by the Cannon of Fort Howe and His Majesty's Ship Albany and it was returned by three Huzzas and an Indian Whoop. Then the Micmack Chief made a handsome speech and delivered to the Superintendent a String of Wampum on behalf of the whole Mickmack Nation as their seal of approbation and agreement to every thing that had been transacted; this being finished the Superintendent and Major Studholme and Rev. Mr. Bourg were desired to seat themselves when a Malecete Captain began a song and Dance in honor and praise of the Conference and those concerned therein; on his finishing a Mickmack Captain began another Song and Dance to the same purpose. The Superintendent then with Major Studholme and the Rev. Mr. Bourg and other Gentlemen marched off with the Indians to the portage above the Falls of the River St. John and stayed there until Mr. Bourg and the Indians embarked, when the Gentlemen on the landing were saluted by the musquetry of the Indian Canoes."
Sir Richard Hughes the Lieut. Gov. of Nova Scotia speaks with great satisfaction of the result of these negotiations in his letter to Lord Germaine, and praises