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And Jno. M. Nesbitt, 356. Report of arms, being made, 356. Reso- lution of Congress for arrest of dangerous persons going at large, 357. Proceedings ; papers and per- sons arrested, &c., 358, 360. Or- der to jailor, 359. Carpenters to be employed to make floats for machines for Fort Island, 360. Lend Congress powder, 361. Agree upon a list of military stores, 362. Order pilots for chevaux-de-frise, 363. Send powder to Northamp- ton, 363. Wm. Allen presents cannon shot; thanks to, 364. Instructions to Peter Long as ship- husband, 364. Resolve of Con- gress to raise a battalion for gen- eral defence, 365. Firelocks and bayonets to be collected, 366. Hospital requested for use of sick, 366. Granted gratis except for venereal patients, 366. Cases of Dr. Kearsley and Brooks laid be- fore Congress, 367. Accommoda- tions provided at Fort Island, 367. Instructions for armed boats, 368. For defence at Fort Island, 368. Hulk to be sunk in river, 368. May erect works on Province Island, 371. An English deserter receives aid, 372. Proposals of pilots, 372. Christopher Carter released, 372. Re-appointed by Assembly, 373. Grant Dr. Kears- ley a clerk, 374. Riots ; arms, 375. Gunsmiths, 376. Pilots enter into an agreement, 376. Oaths taken by them, 376. Ves- sel cast away on Jersey coast, with men and ammunition ; state- ment, &c., 377. Order Dr. Kears- ley to Yorktown jail, 378. Order to R. Morris for expenses, 381. Appoint Thos. Proctor Capt'n, and David Rittenhouse, engineer, 383. Engage person from York to make saltpetre, 384. Correction of minutes, 385. Export provisions to West Indies, to be returned in arms, &c., 385. Orders for con- finement of officers and men stranded on New Jersey, 385-387. Defence of city, 390. Captain Proctor's company to be received into barracks, 390. Rules and regulations for artillery company,
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391. Resolution respecting Capt. Proctor's company, 394. Loan of powder to Congress, 395. Inquire if a master of arms is necessary, 395. Turpentine to be purchased, 395. Quantity of sulphur in city, 395. Committee to contract for building and equipping a ship of war for river service, 396. Regu- lations for pilots, 396. Pilot be- tween Philadelphia and Chester, 397. Agree to purchase powder and lead from Cumberland county, 398. Fire rafts, 399. Officers, pro tem., 406. Resolutions of Congress ; prisoners to be released on parole, 410. Apply to West- moreland respecting arms, 411. Committee to apply to Congress for export of produce, 411. Con- dition of soldiers in jail, 411. Authority to John Wilcocks to load a vessel with produce, to procure powder for province, 413, 421. Heavy cannon to be cast, 412. Order removal of coal from river, 421. Respecting coal thrown into, 423. Dismiss two officers on com- plaints against them. 323. Com- mittees to ascertain quantity of coal in city, 423. Make contract for supplying boats, 423, 424. Congress requests supplies to wo- men and children of soldiers taken at St, Johns, 424. Prisoners se- cured, 424. Return of coal in city, 425. Direct a vessel to be loaded with produce, on their ac- count under Act of Congress, 426. Furnish money to search for coal in Bucks county, 428. Order coal from Jamaica, 428. Orders for removal of prisoners to new gaol, 429. Rule for supplying Congress with powder, &c., 431. Committee to visit Fort Island, inquire what further defences are necessary, 432. To recommend to Congress field officers for bat- talion, 432. Action on resolution of Congress respecting powder, &c., 433. Order boats up to city and men into the barracks, 434. Authorize Gen. Hopkins of the Al- fred, &c., to search outward bound vessels for seamen ; recommend a discreet use of this privilege, 435.
Order artillery company to Fort Island ; fire-rafts ; a battery to be built, 437. Restore Captain Proctor, 438. Files ordered, 438. Order for Russia sheeting; in- quiry what goods of Joshua Fisher & Son are in possession of Committee of Inspection, 439, 449, 451, 453, 454. Resolutions respecting city and liberties, re- specting powder, 440. Congress may employ three pilots, 441. And men from the boats, 441. Choice of Colonels for battalions to be recommended to Congress, 442, 444, 446. Chosen, 443, 446, 447. Resolutions of Congress re- specting D. Conolly, A. Cameron and servants, 444. Order of commitment, 445. Parole required of Andrew Ellicott and Lord Drum- mond, 445. Recommendations to Congress for Captains, 447. Ap- pointed, 448; and other officers appointed, 442-451. Surgeons to be examined ; Captain Proctor to command artillery at Fort Island : a call of Bucks County Committee to choose Lieutenants and Cap- tains, &c. ; places for Magazines, 452. Resolution of Congress for supplies to Colonel Bull for Cana- da, 454. Apply to City Committee to procure certain articles, 454. Committee to procure copies of all petitions, &c., presented by this Colony to the throne since 1762, 455, 461. Release of Carter and Snowden, 455. Committee to pro- cure spades, &c. ; letters to asses- sors and counties for arms and saltpetre, 455. Andrew Caldwell appointed Commander-in-Chief of navy, 456. Returns of men in service ; Second Lieutenants cho- sen, 457. Appoint surgeon and chaplain, 458. Authorize a ship- ment of produce ; offer to loan mo- ney to persons who will erect pow- der mills ; also for firelocks, 459. Order for sale of J. Fisher & Son's goods, 460. Dr. John Smith im- prisoned ; order for iron for gun- barrels, and brass ; report of Com- mittee on copies of petitions, &o., 461. Works on Liberty Island, 462. Hands for navy ; contract
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for cannon ; resolution of Congress, money for recruiting, &c., 463. Orders, 464. Ensigns for Colonel Bull's battalion, 404. Number of hands on boats ; survey of Jersey coast, 464. Purchase of arms by counties, 465. Release of Camp- bell and Snowden; increase of men in service for defence ; powder- mills to be employed, 467. Ex- port of produce ; Dr. Smith exam- ined and remanded to prison ; pilot to cruise for vessel with arms, &c., 469, 470. Lieutenant Camo- ron convicted and remanded ; min- utes to be read ; leave of absence to be asked; officers to be ap- pointed ; timber for carriages to be procured ; rags and lint to be advertised for, and saltpetre, 470, 471. Dr. Conolly examined and remanded, 472. Memorial against T. Austen, &c., 473, 477. R. Seward, Lieutenant, 473. Am- munition to be imported, 473. Offer to buy blankets of Mr. Gratz, 473. Committee on survey of Jersey shore report, 474. Pur- chase of Oznaburgs, 474. Dr. Conolly's servant sent from gaol to workhouse, 476. Two prisoners discharged, also steward of a boat ; pay of Captain of boats increased ; share of prize-money, 477. Offer to Maryland to instruct in art of making saltpetre ; appoint Dr. Hugh Hodge a surgeon, 476. Ber- nard Romans, Captain of Mat- trosses ; T. Hanson, Quartermas- ter ; powder mills, 479. Insure a vessel against seizure for bringing powder, 479. Quartermasters ap- pointed ; four boats ; officers of Mattrosses ; pay for recruiting ; Captain Campbell ; gun locks, &c., 481. Proposals for gunpowder,
482. Men to be raised, by request of Congress, for New York, 483. Congress to be applied to replace arma, 483. Congress furnish, through "Secret Committe," fifty tons saltpetre, 484. To place sol-
diers in pest-house and gaol, 485.
Order papers and stores of John Drinker and J. Fisher & Sons to be locked up, they refusing to take Continental bills, 486. Appoint
Rev. William Linn chaplain, 487. Changes of officers on navy, 488. powder mills and survey of river, 489. Officers of boats to be con- vened by Com. Caldwell, 489. Erection of barracks on Liberty Island, 490. Saltpetre ; armourer of boats ; removal of prisoner from Lancaster, 490. Pest-house-ask for two thousand men; meet every day; key of old gaol; powder mills, 491. Address memorial to Assembly to raise two thousand men ; Dr. Robert Harris borrows money for building powder maga- zine, 493. And to others, sail- cloth for Pennsylvania ship, 493. Notice for volunteers, 493. Rooms at Province Island ; signals for vessels on river ; flag-staff for fort,; smith's shop and forge on ; First Lieutenant, 494. Building of ship to be hastened ; powder mill neces- sary, 495. Letter to Committee of Inspection, respecting T. Rogers and J. Sermon; raise salary of R. Towers ; payment for site of pow- der mill, 497, 499. Purchase military books; call for volun- teers ; M. Bunstead to be prose- cuted, 500. Powder mill; Abel Morris resigns as Ensign ; George Ross appointed ; experiments on rifling cannon, &c., 501. May distribute prisoners ; commit H. Y. Price as a tory, 503. Order to raise men ; regulations ; officers to boats appointed, 505. Survey of river between Reedy Point and Pea Patch ; a pilot ; committee on gun-locks, 506. Boats to be sent to Fort Island ; pilot-boats to sur- vey, 507. Order call on citizens for blankets; pay stopped for clothing ; pay for goods shipped for powder, 508. Decline loaning arms on account of their scarcity ; give a hat to each man, 509. Re- solution of Congress respecting arms; signals; appointments, 510. Riot in prison, call on military ; prisoners of war to repair to places namned by Congress ; chevaux-de- frise ; pay to seamen in navy ; guards for gaol ; State House, &c., 512. Appointments ; pay and bounty; chevaux-de-frise; guard
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boats to be built; discovery of; sulphur ore ; recruits ; prisoners of war, 514. Signals ; officers ; chevaux-de-frise ; arms ; L. Ni- cola, Barrackmaster; recruits ; no indented servants, 516. Pay to officers ; chevaux-de-frise, report on ; sulphur refining, 519. Re- cruits ; armourer at Fort Island ; pay of pilots ; floating battery ; city battalions ; signals, 520. Off- cers of provincial ship ; muskets for Congress ; naval stores ; tim- ber for carriages, 522. Fitting out brig Lexington ; arms taken from Custom House officer ; Mattrosses ; release of Henry Price ; fortifica- tions on Delaware ; names for vessels ; sinking piers at Fort Island, 525. A man-of-war and tender arrive in Delaware Bay ; pay to H. Fisher ; saltpetre ; pro- vincial ship, 526. Proceedings for defence, 526. Guns, locks, ritles ; cannon : vessels to sink in river ; logs for piers ; officers ; McBean runs off with pilot-boat, 531, 533. Congress send informa- tion respecting Samuel Sample's art of boring and grinding gun- barrels, to be purchased, 534. Vessel to cruise in Delaware Bay ; gaol to have iron doors ; arms for pilot-boat at Bombay Hook ; pilot- boats to stay below Chester, 535. Two more chevaux-de-frise to be sunk, 535. Officers appointed ; brig to be purchased for a fire ves- sel ; three new members added, 537. Assembly authorize agent to buy clothing, 538. Appoint M. Clarkson Marshal of Court of Ad- miralty, 538. Barracks to be pro- vided; Continental troops : orders for officers, &c. ; quarters at Ches- ter, &c. ; surgeon for provincial ship ; powder magazine ; resolves of Congress, 540. Various com- mittees, 543. Prisoners paroled, 545. Prisoners removed from Reading, 546. Defence of river ; floating battery to be built ; two prisoners on parole sent to Ger- mantown, 5-17. Two men deserted - from Lord Dunmore, sent to their families ; order printing of rules and regulations of associators ; 5
Drs. Rush and Duffield have . charge of hospital and pest-house, 549. Send memorial to Congress asking cannon taken by C'ommo- dore Ilopkins at Providence ; write to several counties for fire- locks, &c. ; powder magazine to be built at French Creek ; exami- nation of prisoners by Court of Admiralty ; David Jones appointed chaplain, 551. Orders to vessels to attack man-of-war Roebuck, aground ; cause of boats return- ing ; John Reed, commissary, &c. ; medicines ; sisterhood at Bethle- hem present rags ; boats stationed in Bay ; order respecting prisoners on parole, 553. Order of busi- ness ; boats to cruise in river, 554. Men, &c., at Fort Island to pre- pare for action, 557. Express from Port Penn ; vessels in sight from ; orders to Captain Reed, 557. Or- ders for ammunition ; enlistment of apprentices ; inhabitants to sup- ply lead from houses ; committee go to Fort Island ; expresses, 559. Old hulks to be purchased for cov- ering gondolas ; beer to be sent to gondolas ; resolution of Congress on prisoners to be exchanged, 563. And cannon, 564, 565. Shot ; pay for chevaux-de-frise; call on im- portant business ; Lieutenant ap- pointed : two vessels to be pur- chased for special purposes ; fire rafts ; survey of river ; resolution of Congress respecting gaoler, 567. Instructions to John Read, Bar- rackmaster, 568. Two gallies to be built, &c. ; sale of Joshua Fisher & Son's rigging at auction ; sick men to hospital ; to fortify part of Jersey shore ; write to ( ommittee of Delaware ; officers of boats to attend, 571. Memorial to Con- gress on fortifications at billings- port ; sulphur and lead, 573. Committee to procure carriages; beef and pork ; list of necessa- ries ; complain of committee of Assembly, 573. Fascines to be cut ; removal of a prisoner of war ; survey of river ; memorial to C'on- gress on defence, 575. Survey of river, 575. Instructions to Wm. Richards, as ship's husband, 576.
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One hundred men for Fort Island ; salt removed to Germantown ; cer- tificate of committee on cartridges, 677 ; Lieutenant Ball on parole ; powder from Congress ; memorial to Assembly for increase of com- mittee ; floating battery ; flats ; cartridges ; cargoes, 579. Prison- ers from North Carolina commit- ted to gaol ; gaol secured ; guard for ; Com. Caldwell resigns, 581. Stores for saltpetre in Germantown, 581. Ask Congress how to treat prisoners in gaol ; reply, 582, 584. Memorial to Assembly respecting engagement with the Roebuck, &c., 582. Accept of proposals for muskets from Berks county, 584. Appointments ; vessels to be equip- ped for service ; order various arti- cles; resolve of Assembly inquir- ing what preparations have been made ; committee to draw up an account of them ; the fire sloop to be manned, 585. Instructions to Captain Read for better goyern- ment of navy ; pay of officers ; two shallops to be fitted up to attend guard-boats ; officers appointed ; Captain Montgomery called to an- swer ; prisoner on parole ; cart- ridges, proportion of powder to ball, 587. Sizes of muskets ; or- der for purchase of formers, &c .; men sent to pilot-boat ; sulphur, &c. ; representation from Com- mittee of Bucks, 589. Resolution of Congress respecting privateers ; disposition of prisoners from North Carolina; timber for carriages, 591. Cannon ordered from New- port, &c. ; guard-boats to be built ; lead to be purchased ; cannon shot ; guard-boats sent to Lewes T. ; alteration in galleys ; ap- pointment of a Commodore for Navy considered ; brimstone ; hulks to be fitted out, 593. Pay ; two gondolas to be built ; victual- ling of navy ; saltpetre ; Captain Read resigns ; prisoners ; bed- cases ; resolution of Congress, ex- change of prisoners, 595. Send prisoners with Captain Brown; his Instructions ; commanding officer of fleet ordered to allow marine Company to be under its own off-
cers, 596. Rifle guns ; purchases ; chevaux-de-frise ; saltpetre ; gon- dolas ; guards for powder house, 599. Prisoners to be removed from Germantown; arms; lead ; fire rafts ; fortifications on Dela- ware river ; redoubt to be erected at Billingsport, 601. And boom ; fire brig at Fort Island ; gun- barrels ; chevaux-de-frise to be moored at lower and middle buoy ; John McLean, a tory, committed ; Samuel Davidson to be Commo- dore ; rifle company of Westmore- land, under command of Captain Vansweringen and Colonel Proc- tor ; chevaux-de-frise to be sunk at Billingsport, under Robt. Smith ; cartridges to be made up for ship Montgomery, 603. Write to Gen- eral Washington for an engineer to erect fortifications at Billings- port ; Dr. Rush to procure surgi- cal instruments for use of Pro- vince ; desist from building at Fort Island ; battalion ordered up from Chester ; privateer brig Han- cock ; exchange of rifles for mus- kets, 604. Exchange of prisoners with Liverpool man-of-war ; S. Davidson appointed Commodore ; officers of boats resist his authority, 606. Hog Island to be laid under water, 607. Ask loan; flying camp; Congress except to ex- change of prisoners ; instructions to Commodore Davidson ; Capt. Bingley appointed, 609. Order purchases of brass-plank ; build- ing of flat-bottom boats ; what stores are wanted ; copper, am- munition to be delivered, 613. Agree with Thomas Savage to make salt in Jersey ; Drs. Rush and Duffield to make list of medi- cines, &c., wanted ; Marine Com- mittee of Congress ask for lead for four frigates building ; rum for rifle company ; to confine Commo- dore Davidson's command to ship of war, &c., 615. Transactions to be laid before public, 615. Trai- tor allowance to officers in gaol, 615. Instructions to Capt. Henry Dougherty, 617. Orders for dis- charge of R. Saunderson, &c .; against seducing men from boats;
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appointments ; engineer to make draft of fortifications at Billings- port ; to purchase land there ; pay, 619. Appointments ; H. Fisher's receipt for guard-boat ; resolution of Congress to raise companies ; send money to Committee and Convention, 621. Gunpowder to be distributed to associators ; battalion of Germans ; prisoners to be escorted to Yorktown ; pow- der to Commiss'rs of Jersey ; ad- dress to inhabitants of Pennsyl- vania, explanatory of its course with regard to Commodore David- son, 623. Title papers of land at Billingsport ; battalion ordered to Jersey ; erection of fortifications ; allowance of rum ; proposals for casting brass cannon ; privateer ; battalion ordered back ; troops in counties to be in readiness ; guard- house at old powder-house to be removed to new magazine; labo- ratory enclosed with fence ; sails for gondola; refusal of Lieuten- ants to give parole, to be conveyed to York, 627. Colonel Miles to order troops to Philadelphia and Jersey ; resolutions of Congress ; officers, prisoners, to wear their uniforms ; prisoners on parole ; provincial troops to receive Conti- nental pay ; appointments ; five hundred riflemen to be got ready to proceed to Bordentown, under command of Colonel Brodhead ; six shallops to transport troops, 629. Reward offered for cutting loose pier at Fort Island ; rough sheds at Billingsport ; New Lon- don cannon sent down to Fort ; patroles for city ; awnings bought ap for tents ; conference with committee of Congress, &c. ; Mon- sieur Kermanvor appointed engi- neer at . Billingsport, 631. Dr. Dunlap, surgeon ; arrival of can- non ; flints ; value of arms taken from non-associators to be paid for ; linen for bandages and lint, and awnings for tents, 633. Sur- geon's mate ; pay of officers ; Cap- tains ; resolution of Congress send- ing copies of Declaration of Inde -. pendence ; orders to proclaim it, 634. Rules and regulations of
army ; employment of soldiers, &c., by iron-masters ; Dr. Kuhn appointed physician and Director- General of hospital for troops in New Jersey, and adjust a plan ; persons employed by Committee not to be enlisted; printing bills of credit ; leaden weights to be col- lected ; Dr. Dunlap to purchase medicines, &c., 637. Loan from Congress ; arms, &c., in Bucks to be repaired ; Dr. John Davis may purchase instruments ; prisoners of North Carolina, in gaol, may write to friends under inspection : L. Kaigher seeks redress ; order to C. Biddle for sundry articles, and to Colonel Thomas Mckean ; resolution of Congress for parole of A. McDonald ; bandages ; pri- soners discharged, 639. Offer a reward for apprehension of Major Rogers ; all provincial arms to be delivered to General Roberdeau's order ; prisoners of war sent to Yorktown ; awnings for tents ; M. Bustead's air furnace to be taken for public use ; a boring mill near city ; intrenching tools; orders for various payments, 641. Pay- ment for brig Nancy, lost ; plan for supporting families of poor associators ; privateer Venus ; pay of artillery company increased ; Major Potts resigns ; Lieutenant Webb suspended and restored ; Ensigns and Lieutenants recom- mended to Congress; arms from non-associators, 643. Sundry or- ders ; appointments ; cartridges sent to New Jersey ; land at Bil- lingsport ; prisoners to York, &c., 645. British officers, prisoners, required to leave city ; the fami- lies of poor associators to be pro- vided for; brig Dolphin's freight money paid ; old scow for hulk, &c., paid for; discharge of Mc- Donald, by order of Congress, on parole, 647, 648. Gun-barrels ; chevaux-de-frise ; pay for Mrs. Conolly ; leaden weights ; guard ; associators, 649. Pay of marines : saltpetre ; firelocks ; rank; ex- change of copper ; purchase of rifles ; provisions for troops ; arms to be repaired, 661. Required by
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Convention to lay accounts and | proceedings before them ; pay- ment to, 674.
Committee of Safety-their accounts to be settled by a committee ap- pointed, xi., 643.
Committee of all the Counties meet in Philadelphia; delegates to Gen- eral Congress, x., 200.
Committee, Secret, to furnish Com- mittee of Safety fifty tons salt- petre, 484.
Committee to fix signals at Cape Henlopen, 510. Alarm, 548. Committee, Marine, of Congress, x., 648.
Commodities, price to be according to value of money, ii., 445, 446. Commodore of fleet to be appointed ; his pay, to have clerk, x., 379.
Commodores, of Navy, x., 593, 603. Comptroller General, Reports, xiii., 509, 511, 517, 532, 534, 536, 546, 552, 553, 557, 561, 563, 566, 567, 570, 573, 574, 576, 579, 580, 583, 584, 586, 589, 590, 593, 596, 598, 601, 603, 604, 607, 611, 613, 615, 617, 619, 620, 622, 623, 624, 628, 631, 632, 634, 636, 638, 640, 643, 647, 668, 673, 674, 676, 679, 680, 682, 683, 690, 692, 694, 696, 701, 702, 703, 706, 708, 711, 731, 736, 741, 743, 746, 751, 753, 755, 768, 775, 777; xiv., 4, 9, 13, 15, 29, 33, 34, 37, 38, 39, 41, 45, 50, 53, 55, 60, 61-64, 67, 69, 71, 73, 75, 80-103, 107, 110, 118, 123-134, 141, 151, 153, 159, 160, 164, 165, 169, 176, 177, 178, 179, 183, 189- 196, 199, 202, 207, 211, 215, 216, 217, 224, 225, 228, 229, 230, 231, 234, 235, 236, 237, 238, 239, 240, 243, 244, 255, 261, 262, 263, 264, 265, 273, 276, 278, 287, 289, 292- 300, 309, 31., 312, 314, 318, 320, 322, 324, 342, 346, 347, 348, 356, 357, 359, 364, 366, 370, 374,
376, 380, 382, 395, 396, 400, 402, 406-440, 446, 448, 452, 458, 462, 463, 464, 467, 473, 477 478, 480, 482, 487, 492, 500, 503, 507, 509, 511, 512, 514, 519, 520, 522, 55
553, 557, 558, 562, 570, 574, 578, 579, 581, 583, 587, 590, 592, 601, 604, 606, 607-615, 617, 631 632, 633, 634, 636, 639, 643, 653, 655, 659, 662, 679; xv., 1, 8, 13, 24, 25,
27, 33, 37, 40, 45, 54, 57, 60, 64, 74, 76, 80, 83, 95, 97, 98, 103, 107, 122, 125, 105, 133, 135, 142, 144, 149, 152, 164, 168, 180, 185, 186, 193, 196, 205 206, 212, 215, 219, 221, 225 226, 238, 245, 246, 248, 249, 250, 261 267. 282, 286, 374, 401, 406, 41 413, 432, 519, 546, 560, 566, 595, 635, 640, 643, 644; xvi., 7, 10, 17, 18, 21, 22, 23, 24, 30, 35, 39, 41, 44, 50, 61, 63, 80, 82, 86, 89, 92, 94, 101, 127, 148, 154, 161, 166-201, 217, 222, 210', 2144, 2161, 227, 228, 234, 236, 253, 267, 291, 315, 317, 326, 328, 359, 373, 381, 407, 419, 420, 427, 459, 432, 434, 481, 515. To appoint an invalid corps, xiv., 666. Con- troversy between Comptroller and Board of Treas'y, xv., 54. To have balance in Treasury transferred to State Treasury, 54, 00. Expenses of office, 225. To pay specie, 324. Instructions to, xvi., 80. Addi- tional instructions to, and opinion of judges on manner of settling accounts, 90. Vote on, 91. Ac- counts examined by Receiver, 272. Report of Committee on, 314. Alters warrants, 320, 323. Reso- lutions respecting, 331.
Conarroe, Thomas, agrees to build piers at Marcus Hook, xiv., 479. Claim for building piers at Marcus Hook, xv,, 228. Report of War- dens on, 233.
Conditions or Concessions of Penn- sylvania, i., 26.
Conestoga, attack of Indians on families at, ii., 121, 122, 131, 138, 141. Indians from, 186. Indians alarmed by threats from Maryland, 191. Indian Harry and brother, 204. Indians in Philadelphia, 245. Present large wampum belt, 246. Treaty with, 299. Message to and from, 467. Suspected of murder, 70. In Philadelphia, 246. Message from, 403. Conference with Indians at, 511, 513, 516, 531, 533, 574, 594-600. Death of Old Queen, 574. Move off, 603. Chiefs arrive in Philadelphia, 606. Disturbance among Indians, iii., 15, 17, 18. Conference at, 19-24. Trespassers from Maryland on lands, 37. Petition for a road to
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Brandywine, 43. Civility or Ta- gotolessa and other chiefs visit Philadelphia Conference, 45. Let- ter from, on Indian murders, 66. Col. John French sent to, makes his report, 77-81. Report of Con- ference with Indians at, 92. Pres- ents from Virginia to Indians, 114. Visit of Five Nations and Gov- ernor, &c. to, 120. Conference at, 121-130. Murder of Indians by Cartledge reported, 146. Proceed- ings, 146-7. Indians from, at Philadelphia, 163. Governor's message to Assembly, 167. Gov- ernor holds council with Indians, 178, 181-184. Lands near, sur- rendered by Indians to Governor Keith at Albany, 201, 202. Gov- ernor going to, 225. Indians killed by Shawnese, 302. Gov- ernor visits, 302. Proposed treaty, 302. Message sent to, to convene Indians, 305. Council at, 300-314. Disturbances, 331. Treaty at, 337; vii., 7, 59, 282. Want clothing, 379. At Lancas- ter, 479. Deputies from, 484. !
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