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He added, that the French Governor told them that the English were much better furnished with Cloathing, and other things neces- sary for the Indians, than his People were; that in time the French and English Traders would meet at Allegheney, exchange Goods, and trade together. He then desired the Indians to have a good heart, and love all their Brethren the English ; that he would also take Care that all the French Indians should love the English, and said that some of his People would come to Allegheney in the Fall, to visit them.
Being asked whether they Know that the French intended to build some Houses at Allegheny, they answer that they know nothing of the matter.
They were then acquainted that a great Treaty had lately been held here with the Six Nations, in which it was proposed to unite all the Indians in the English Interest together ; that a considerable Number of their Nation, about thirty four years since, (as the Govr. had told them in his Letter,) coming with their Wives & Families to Settle at Conestogoe, they then entred into a League of Friendship with this Government; first with Coll. Markham, the then Lieutenant Governor, and in about three years after, with William Penn himself, who was under the Great King of England as a Father to all the
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Indians ; that from that time the Shawanese became as Brothers to the English, as all our other Indians are ; and so in all Treaties with our Indians since the first coming of the Shawanese, we have always accounted them, and from time to time they had constantly, as there was Occasion, renewed and confirmed the League or Chain of Friend- ship with us, but now they seemed to be applying to others to make new friendships with them.
They said, that having received the Governor's Letter calling them hither, they came as Friends and Brethren; but they appeared con- cerned, and said they did not know any thing they had done amiss on their parts, and did not think they were sent for to be found fault with ; they thought they were coming to their friends.
They were told they thought right, we are their true friends, and we look upon them to be Ours. We only put them in mind of the old League and friendship subsisting between them and Us. They are to be commended for living in Peace with all their Neighbours, and they ought to be civil to the French while the French are civil to them, but they must not prefer any other People to the English ; they have made Leagues with us; we are their true friends. We take their present Visit very kindly, and they shall find we do; and are pleased with it; but they must like true friends, be open and free with us : true friendship requires this.
They appeared well pleased, and Evening coming on, they were dismissed till another Meeting.
At a Council, October 5th, 1732.
PRESENT :
The Honourable Proprietor, with some Members of Council.
The Elections, and the Governor's Journey to Newtown, in Mary- land, with the other Commissioners appointed for running the Di- vision Lines of the Province, &c., having delayed the prosecution of the Treaty with the Shawanese Chiefs, began the 30th Ultimo, they now mett again, and were told as was hinted before to them :
That divers Chiefs of the five Nations having lately visited this place, and concluded a Solemn Treaty with us, It was proposed that all the Indians in Amity with the English should enter into one League, and become United as one People : and particularly, that the Shawanese should be united to the Six Nations, and that this had been largely discoursed with those Nations; they said the Min- goes had not said any thing of it to them.
They were put again in mind of the League they had entred into with this Government, that they had always been kindly treated, and we could not but think strange they should retire and leave us, without first acquainting us with it. As William Penn, who was the Father of this Country, was always a father to all the Indians, so were his Governors. Whenever we speak to the Indians, We speak to them as to our Brothers, with open hearts. Their Father William Penn is now in his grave, for he was very Ancient, but his VOL. III .- 20
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Son is here ; he is now with them, and will treat all the Indians in the same manner his father always did.
He is not pleased they should retire such a distance from us, he desires they may live near us; or if their Hunters must go further abroad for their Game, yet their Wives and Children should remain with us. That they might not be straitned for Want of Lands, there was a large Tract laid out for them about their Town, near Pextan, which should always be kept for them and their Children for all time to come, or so long as any of them continued to live with us. They see by this we are their true friends, and as Brothers they are desired to open their hearts and speak freely.
They said when they heard all we had to say to them, they would answer fully, and the substance of what had been said to them being repeated, they replied :
That they had heard of the Land that was laid out for them ; that their Young men had gone over the Mountains to hunt where they might have more Game, that when that was over they would return and see the Land; that their Families and the rest of them, being afraid of being surprized by their Enemies, the Tootelaes, had retired where they might live in greater Safety.
They were told that our Traders might leave off carrying out Goods to such a distance, and they well knew the French could not supply them with Goods, either so valuable in their Kind, or at such cheap rates. To which they answered, that they were sensible of this, but they had horses of their own, and could bring down their Skins to the Trader, or to this town, if there were occasion.
They then presented a Belt of Wampum, and said they acknowl- edged the Receipt of the Governor's Letter, and the Belt, with the Rum sent them ; that they were pleased with the Message, and being desired to come and visit us they were come accordingly ; they were glad to see William Penn's Son, & pleased with the Words they had heard, and will report them to their People ; they say they have had a very hard Summer, and are poor, but had brought him a Skin to make a pair of Gloves.
The Proprietor said he was glad of this Opportunity of taking them by the hand, and desired them to speak freely on the heads that had been mentioned to them.
They answered that the place where they are now Settled Suits them much better than to live nearer ; that they thought they did a Service to this Province, in getting Skins for it in a place so far re- mote; that they can live much better there than they possibly can any where on Sasquehannah ; that they are pleased however with the Land laid out for them, and desire it may be secured to them.
They were told that some Cloaths should be provided for them, with a present for them to carry to their People. And when these were ready, the Proprietor would speak further to them about the l and, upon which the Council, having ordered Cloaths & a present, rose.
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October the 6th.
Three of the four Shawancse Indians meeting the Proprietor & some of the Council, presented a bundle of Skins, consisting of 22 small Drest Deer Skins, wt. 261b., and 2 small Elks.
They were told there were Coats making for them, and other Cloaths, with a Present, was providing; the Proprietor presented their Chief with a very fine gilt Gun, as a mark of his respect for their Nations, and told them he would send a Surveyor to run Lines about the Land intended for them, and that none but themselves & Peter Chartiere should be allowed to live on it. That their Cloaths were not yet finished, but they should be ready in the Evening.
October the 7th.
One of the four Shawanese Indians, a young Man named Quass- cnung, Son of their old King, Kakowatchy, being 3 or 4 days since taken with the small Pox, tho' not one Person in the City was then known to have that Distemper, Opakethwa their Speaker, agreed to stay in Town to take care of him; the other three received each of them a blue Cloth Coat lined with Salloon, a Shirt, a Hatt, a pair of Stockings, Shoes and buckles, the like was also given for the Sick young man, to be delivered to him. And for a present to their Nation was ordered and delivered, a piece of blue Strouds, for blan- kets, one hundred weight of Powder, four hundred weight Bullets, ten gallons of Rum, & two dozen Knives. And to John Wray the Interpreter, who had come down with them, five pounds.
Their charges in town were also ordered to be paid, and what should further arise on account of the Sick Young Man, and Opa- kethwa, who staid to take care of him.
N. B. Quassenungh recovered from the small Pox, but Opakethwa who tended him, was taken most violently with the same Distemper, and dying on the 26th, was next day handsomely burried. Quass- enungh was seized with violent Pains, and languished till the 16th of January ; he then dyed, and was likewise the next day buried in a handsome manner. E
At a Council held at Philadelphia, Septr. 31st, 1732. PRESENT :
The Honble THOMAS PENN, Esqr., Proprietary,
The Honourable PATRICK GORDON, Esqr., Lieut. Governor. James Logan, Thomas Laurence,
Samuel Preston,
Samuel Hasell. Esquires. Clement Plumsted,
The Governor acquainted the Board that the Differences between our Honorable Proprietary Family and the Lord Baltimore, touch- ing the disputed Boundaries of their respective Governments, being now happily accommodated, an Agreement had been concluded be- tween them, which, by Direction of the Proprietor, he was now to
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lay before the Board. That it had been as yet only communicated to the Commissioners, who by a certain Instrument, are appointed on the Part of Pennsylvania to execute that Agreement, by running the Lines, &c., but as these Gentlemen were in a few days to sett out to meet Mr. Ogle, Governor of Maryland, and those named on the part of that Government, The Proprietor is desirous of imparting the said Agreement to the Council, seeing it may not be improper to take Notice to this Board, of the Steps taken in a Matter of so great & publick Importance.
Which Agreement, with the Instrument appointing the Commis- sioners, being read, all the Members expressed their hearty Satis- faction therewith, and the pleasure it gave them to find that the Differences and Uneasinesses which had formerly so much disquieted this Government, were in so fair a way of being fully settled, and as the Execution of the Agreement was entrusted to Persons of such good Abilities, it was to be hoped the same would be speedily brought to a happy Issue.
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At a Council held at Philada., October 3d, 1732.
PRESENT :
The Honourable PATRICK GORDON, Esqr., Lieut. Governor. James Logan, Thomas Laurence. Clement Plumsted, Henry Brooke,
Samuel Hasell. Esquires.
Returns from the Counties of Philadelphia and Chester, of the Elections of Sherifs & Coroners for the year ensuing, being laid before the Board, the following Persons were nominated to these Offices to witt :
For the City and County of Philadelphia. Septimus Robinson and Robert Ellis being returned for Sherifs, and Owen Owen and John Roberts for Coroners, Septimus Robinson is appointed Sherif, and Owen Owen Coroner.
For the County of Chester. John Parry & Wm. Smith being returned for Sherifs, & Anthony Shaw and John Wharton for Coroners, John Parry is appointed Sherif & Anthony Shaw Coro- ner.
And Commissions are ordered to be issued to them, on their giv- ing Security as the Law directs. The Governor then notified to the Board, that pursuant to an Appointment made between the Lieuten- ant Governor of Maryland and him, for the meeting of the Commis- sioners named on the part of that Province and Pennsylvania, for the Execution of the late Agreement concluded between the Proprie- taries of each, he was to set out to morrow for Newtown, in Mary- land, and recommended to the Board the Care of the Public in his Absence.
His Honour then observing that the Returns of the Elections in Bucks & Lancaster Counties had not yet been made, desired that the first named in each might be appointed to the offices of Sheriff & Coroner, unless some good Cause appeared to the Contrary, and said
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he had ordered blank Commissions for that purpose to be left with Mr. Logan.
The Board having wished the Governor Success in his Journey and a safe Return, the Council broke up.
October 5th. In the Governor's Absence.
Returns from the two last mentioned Counties being received, the Appointments were thus made :
For the County of Bucks. Isaac Pennington & John Hart being returned for Sherif, & William Atkinson & Joseph Wildman for Coroners, Isaac Pennington was appointed Sherif & William Atkin- son Coroner.
For the County of Lancaster, Robert Buchannan and John Gal- braith being returned for Sherifs, & Joshua Lowe & Samuel Bethel for Coroners, Robert Buchannan is appointed Sherif & Joshua Lowe Coroner.
October 5th, at Newcastle.
Returns being brought the Governor, of the Elections in the Coun- ties of Newcastle, Kent & Sussex, the following Persons were by him appointed to the offices of Sherif & Coroner :
For the County of Newcastle. John Gooding and Henry New- ton being returned for Sherifs, and Robert Robertson & Henry Gonne for Coroners, John Gooding is appointed Sherif & Henry Gonne Coroner.
For the County of Kent. John Hall & Daniel Rodeney being returned for Sherifs, and Nicholas Lockerman and John Wells for Coroners, John Hall is appointed Sherif & Nicholas Lockerman Coroner.
For the County of Sussex. Simon Kollock & being re- turned for Sherifs, and Joshua Fisher & -- for Coroners, Simon Kollock is appointed Sherif and Joshua Fisher Coroner.
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N. B. This & the preceeding Minute, were by mistake Entered before that of the 5th of October.
At the Courtho. of Philadelphia, Octor. 11th, 1732.
PRESENT :
The Honble PAT. GORDON, Esqr., Lt. Govr. With Severals of the City Magistrates.
Forty two Palatines, who with their families, making in all Persons, were imported here in the Ship Pleasant, James Morris, Master from Rotterdam, but last from Deal, as by Clearance thence, were this day qualified as usual, & their Names are Subjoyned : Balzar Spingler, George Hans Peters, Henrich Spingler, Johannes Kellar, Georg. Spingler, Jurg. Kullar,
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Johan Georg. Senck,
Jacob Friedrich Klim,
Georg. Bear,
Henricus Retz,
Frederick Baasler, Ulrich Bodman,
Johan Jacob Timmanous,
Ulrich Peters,
Isaac Raudebush,
Matthias Jurian,
Freidrich Notz,
Henrich Eckert,
Hans Adam Schilling,
Hans Georg. Salk,
Johannes Moak,
Philip Schellig,
Ulrich Baasler,
Conrats Kolb,
Job. Casper Winterott,
Conrats Glassbrenner,
Georg. Philip Snatherly,
Jacob Hornberger,
Hans Michl. Snatherly,
Hans Peter Sigmund,
Georg. Mess,
Hans Bern Kuntzer, .
Valtin Mullar,
Fulk Mullar,
Hans Michel Hoffman,
Hans Philip Kresler,
Johannes Tablemeyer,
Matthias Ambrosi,
Conraad Roup,
Johannes Gumbor, E.
Georg. Michel Favian.
At a Council held at Philadelphia, October 16th, 1732.
PRESENT : The Honourable PATRICK GORDON, Esqr., Lieut. Governor.
Samuel Preston, Thomas Laurence,
Clement Plumsted, Samuel Hasell. Esq'rs.
The Representatives of this Province, elected the 2d instant, (the 1st falling on Sunday,) having mett in Assembly on the 14th and proceeded to the Choice of a Speaker, notified the same by a message to the Governor, who having appointed this forenoon for receiving them with their Speaker, they attended accordingly.
And Andrew Hamilton, Esqr., having acquainted the Governor that the Representatives had been pleased to chuse him to be their Speaker, his Honour declared his Approbation of their Choice ; Whereupon the Speaker made his usual requests of Freedom of Speech, Access to the Governour's Person, Protection from Arrests during the accustomed time of Privilege, &c., all which his Honour having assured them he would inviolably maintain as far as lay in his Power, they withdrew. E.
At the Court House of Philadelphia, October 17th, 1832. PRESENT :
The Honourable the Lieutenant Governour.
With the Mayor of the City, & other Magistrates.
Sixty one Palatines, who with their families, making in all One hundred Sixty nine persons, were imported here in the Pink John & William of Sunderland, Constable Tymperton, Master from Rotter-
Jacob Podom,
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dam but last from Dover, as by Clearance thence, were this day quali- fied as usual, and their Names follow :
Bernard Wymer,
Conrad Low, Ludwig Hoogel, Jacob Weyber,
C. Wolger,
Georg. Albrecht,
Jacob Brechbiel.
Hans Jacob Reyl,
Stephen Matthes,
Abraham Dubo,
Hans Georg. Martin,
Hans Erhart Vosselman,
Johannes Emich,
Antoni Albrecht,
Hans Philip Kleas,
Conrad Getz,
Nicholaus Kooger,
Michal Weysel,
Jacob Kooger,
Jac. Matthias Wenser,
Lutwig Joh. Melchionar,
Sebastian Trockenmiller,
Johannes Yeigie,
Gideon Hoffer,
Hans Reyl,
Joh. Shuffeln,
Johan Paul Derst,
Hans Brechbill,
Hans Georg. Sprecher,
Matthias Rubichon,
Johannes Vogler,
Jacob Henrich,
Philip Melchoir Moyer,
Joh. Michal Housman,
Johan Georg. Wahnsidel,
Joh. Nicolaus Pauschon,
Johan Pieter Apsell,
Baltzer Gerloch,
Georg. Wypert,
Christian Low, E.
Johan Jacob Sheare.
At a Council held at Philadelphia, January 9th, 1732-3.
PRESENT :
The Honourable the Proprietary. The Lieutenant Governor.
James Logan,
Isaac Norris,
Samuel Preston,
Henry Broooke,
Thomas Laurence, Ralph Assheton, Samuel Hasell, Clement Plumsted.
Esquires.
The Governor acquainted the Board, that some days since he had received a Letter from the Lord Baltimore, complaining of a Riot committed within his Lordships Province of Maryland, by People of Pennsylvania, but the Circumstances not being mentioned, or any Information given from whence the matter might be clearly under- stood, he had thought proper in a few Lines, to acknowledge the
Moritz Laurence,
Johannes Schook,
Laurence Keiffer,
Georg. Adam Stiess,
Bartol Moll,
Hans Georg. Rohrbach,
Joh. Nicholaus Schmidt, Adam Wilt,
Felter Sheadecker, Johannes Deynen, Pieter Haywigh,
Fredrich Wyssell,
Joh. Phillipus Reinhart, Hans Peter Brechbill, Bendu Brechbill,
Johannes Nagel, Peter Smidt, Johannes Housam,
Henrich Getz,
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Receipt of his Lordships Letter, and to refer giving a particular An- swer till a due Enquiry should be made into the Affair.
That having gather'd from the Precept enclosed in Mis Lordship's Letter, that the persons complained of were Inhabitants of Lancaster County, he had dispatched an Express to the Justices there, requiring them to furnish him with an exact Account of the whole ; that the Messenger being now returned, had brought a Letter from the Justices together with several Affidavits, all of which he thought highly proper now to lay before the Board, whom he had called together to advise with on the Answer to be made to Lord Baltimore.
The Letter from his Lordship being read in these words :
" Annapolis, Decr. ye 15th, 1732. " Sir :
" By the enclosed precept, founded upon Informations given upon " Oath to a Magistrate here, you will see that a most outrageous Riot " hath lately been committed in my Province, by a great Number of " People calling themselves Pennsylvanians.
" It appears by the same Information that some of your Magistrates, " instead of preventing or discouraging these Violences, Countenance " and abet the Authors of them; whether with or without the " Approbation of your Government, you best know.
" For my own part, I think myself in Honour and Justice obliged, " and I am determined to protect such of his Majesty's Subjects who " are my own Tenants, in all their Rights; and therefore, to the End " the Persons complained of may be punished, if upon a fair tryal " they shall be found guilty, I desire that they, or such of them as can " be found in your Province, may be sent without loss of time into " this, as the Only and proper place, where the fact with which they " are charged is Cognizable, and where my Officers will be ready to " receive them, particularly the Sheriffs and Justices of my Counties " of Baltimore and Cecil.
" I also desire that such of your Magistrates as shall appear to " have Encouraged the commission of these or any other Violences "in my Province, by the People of Pennsylvania, may be punished " for their abuse of Authority ; and that you'l favour me with a " Categorical answer to these my just demands by this bearer.
" Your Humble Servant, " BALTIMORE.
" Addressed thus,
" To His Excellency Patrick Gordon, Esqr., at Philadelphia."
The Precept referred to in the foregoing Letter, follows in these Words :
" Maryland, ss :
" WHEREAS Charles Jones, James Patison, Alxr. McKey, " John Capper, John Hart, John Pattan, James Pattan, James Pati- " son, Junr., John Trotter and William Macmanac being, or pre- " tending themselves to be Inhabitants of Pennsylvania, together " with several other persons unknown, are Charged upon the Oath " of John Lowe of Baltimore County, Planter, taken before me, " Robert Gordon, Esqr., one of his Lordship's Justices of the
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"'Provincial Court of Maryland, with having Assembled themselves, " Armed with Weapons, Offensive and Defensive, in a Riotous " manner, on the Plantation of him the said John Lowe, in the said " County, in the Night of the Twenty sixth of November last, and " Violently and Riotously Assaulting and beating the said John " Lowe, his Wife and Family, and Imprisoning the said John Lowe " and his two Sons, to the great Terror and Damage of the said John " Lowe and his Family, against his Lordship's Peace, Good rule and " Government :
" THESE are therefore in his Lordship's Name, to Will and re- " quire all Sheriffs, Coroners, Constables, and other his Lordship's " Officers, to make Diligent Search and Enquiry within their res- " pective Counties and precincts, for the said Charles Jones, James " Pattison, Alexander M'Key, John Capper, John Hart, James "Pattan, James Pattison, Junr., John Trotter and William Mac- " manac, and all other persons concerned in the said Riot, and to "apprehend them or any of them who shall be found within this " Province, and to carry them or any of them before some one of his " Lordship's Justices of the Provincial Court, or some one Justice of " the Peace of the County where they or any of them shall be found, " in Order to be dealt with according to Law ; hereof the said Officers "are not to fail at their peril. Given under my hand and Seal, at " Annapolis, this Fourteenth day of December, in the Eighteenth " year of his Lordship's Dominion, Anno Domini 1732."
The Governor's Answer to his Lordship's said Letter, is as follows :
" Philadelphia, Decemr. 23d, 1732. " My Lord :
" It gives me no small Concern, that the first Letter I have the " Honour to receive from your Lordship, should be on so disagreeable " a Subject as a complaint against any of his Majesty's Subjects " under my Government, for Disorders committed in the Province " of Maryland; and I must assure your Lordship you have been " exceedingly misinformed if you can imagine it possible that I should "countenance an Outrage of such a Sort as your Letter seems to " represent it, for I believe I shall be fully capable to satisfy your " Lordship that my Conduct in relation to your Province, since I " had the honour to serve the Proprietors of Pennsylvania as their " Lieutenant Governour, has demonstrated a very different Dispo- " sition.
" To the matter of the Complaint I am very much a Stranger, and " as your Lordship was not pleased to transmitt Copies of the Infor- " mation, or any thing else that might sufficiently enable me to "judge of it more clearly, I shall therefore immediately, notwith- " standing the Distance and Rigour of the Season, dispatch a Mes- " sage to the Magistrates of the County of Lancaster requiring them " without delay to make a full Enquiry, and furnish me with every " thing for the perfect Understanding the State and Circumstances " of the whole Affair; and I have no Reason, from the past Conduct " of those Gentlemen, to believe but that it will be found much dif- 20*
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" ferent from what has been represented to your Lordship. These " when received shall be forthwith communicated, and then I may " have Occasion to make some further Observations on your Lord- "'ship's Letter, and the Nature of these unhappy Disputes which, " notwithstanding all possible Caution to the contrary, may arise for " want of the Division Lines being actually run, whereby every In- " habitant might distinctly know what Jurisdiction he lives under. " This being all I am at present able to say on the Subject till the " return of my messenger, I am, My Lord, " Your Lordship's " Very humble Servant, "P. GORDON.
Addressed thus,
" To the Right Honourable
" The Lord Baltimore, Proprietor of Maryland."
Then was read the Letter of John Wright & Samuel Blunston, Esqrs , to the Governor, in the following Words :
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