Great
Captain of the English
Thou
seest from the peace treaty of which I am
sending thee the copy that thou must live
peacefully with me. Is it living peacefully
with me to take my land away from me against
my will? My land which I received from God
alone, my land of which no king nor foreign
power has been allowed or is allowed to dispose
against my will, which thou hast been doing
none the less for several years, by establishing
and fortifying thyself here against my wishes,
as thou didst in my Anmirkangan [Androscoggin],
Kenibekki [Kennebec] and Matsih-an-ssis Rivers
and elsewhere and more recently in my AnmKangan
[Androscoggin]River where I was very surprised
to see a fort which I was told was being built
by thy command.
Consider,
great captain, that I have often told thee
to withdraw from my land and that I am telling
thee so again for the last time. My land is
not thine either by right or conquest, or
by grant or by purchase.
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