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Governor claims a fourth part of, 42. Shawnese Indians come to take leave of Governor, 46. Pe- tition to remove Burdens of Trade, 53. Charter for, submitted and read, 53. Signed, 61. "Road and broken bridge leading out of the north end of the town," 63, 64, 65. Commissioners appointed, 65. Governor Mill, 64, 65. Taxes not collected-Thomas Farmer and William Tongue collectors, 66. Version of the charter as ap- plied to Justices, 67. Princess Ann of Denmark proclaimed Queen of England, 70. Provin- cial Court Judges ask how " bene- fit of clergy " is to be adminis- tered, 87. Call of a special Court of General Gaol delivery, 86. Provincial Court-Attorney-Gen- eral absent-Judges may adminis- ter "benefit of clergy," 87. John Bewly, Collector of Customs, 95, 96. Thomas Farmer, High Sher- iff, resigns -Jno. Finney ap- pointed, 97. Dedimus to Robert Asheton, 97. Prisoners to be dis- charged from gaol, 102. Pente- cost Teague, Coroner-expenses of a drowned man not paid, 102. Court fees do not pay expenses, 102. Survey on goods, 103. Man to be whipped at the "bell of the city," remitted, 103. An- thony Morris elected Mayor of, and makes promise of fidelity to Queen, 104. Wm. Lee, Coroner, 108. Governor John Evans ar- rives-proclaimed at . "market place," 115. Commission to Council read, 115. "Bull's
Head, " 134. Indians visit, to trade, 140, 141. Militia duty ex- empts from watching, &c., 151. Bills to confirm charter proposed, 153. Indian Harry's brother ar- rives, 155. An Indian chief ar- rives at, 159. Justices of County Court commissioned, 159. Tax Collector-remonstrance against enlistments, licenses, &c., 161. Answer, 161. Griffith Jones elect- ed Mayor, 162, 163. Great disor- ders in-proclamation, 162. Coro- ner, 163. A great fray in the city,
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Mayor, &c. charged with being concerned in it, 171. Not guilty, 171. Governor and Assembly- difference as to people's right to choose Sheriff, 178. Two candi- dates, Wright and Budd, nomi- nated, 177. Proclamation of rates of foreign coins, 179. Address of Mayor, complaining that county Justices interfere, 180. Indians arrive, 183. Indian chief Manan- gy, on Schuylkill, arrives, 191. Tax Collectors, 197. Road to Goshen, 111, 189. Proceedings on act of Mayor, &c., respecting night watches - considered as clashing with Governor's procla- mation on militia and exempts, 159, 161, 204, 205. Disputed election of Sheriff, 205. Christ Church vestry to be informed of proposed bill to alienate lands, 222. Petition for rates of money, 222, 223, 224. Sheriff to collect tax, 233. Benj. Wright declines, 233. John Moore, Collector, seizes a Boston vessel for want of certi- ficate, 240. Citizens to give ac- count of what arms they have to Committee appointed by Council, 241. French privateers, 241. De- fensive measures proposed, 241. Arrival of Indian chiefs, Conesto- goes, Shawnese and Ganawese, 244. Cost of treaty with Cones- togoes at, 248. False alarm in, 250. Fortifications spoken of as too costly, and postponed, 250.
Powers of magistrates not abridged, 254. Opinions of law- yers on Courts for, 254. A negro slave from Jersey arrested, on suspicion of arson, 275. Right to elect a double number for Sheriff-Jno. Budd and Henry Flower elected, 296, 307. Records to be demanded from Pat. Robin- son's [widow, 297. John Fenny, Sheriff, 297. Resigns, 298. Elec- tions asked by military, 358. Petition of merchants of, against abuses at New Castle by a fort, 379. Assembly's action on, 380- 383. Indians sent for by M. Chartiere, 390. Unseated lots and taxes, 391-2. Peter Evans,
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Tax Collector, 391. Sheriff, 397, 406. Severe and singular pun- ishment of slaves by way of com- promise, 406. Complaint against Sheriff, 406. Petition of Mayor, &c., on tax of 1d. to build bridges and a Court house, 406. Case of action of trover and conversion, 407. Mayor and Recorder appear before Council, relative to levy of taxes for bridges and a court house-city claim right to assess for their own purposes, 407. Pe- tition of Mayor, &c., respecting raising funds for Court house, &c., 410. Address of merchants to Lord Cornbury on French pri- vateers, 411. Captain Charles Gookin arrives as Governor, 427. Mayor to publish proclamation of Colonels Vetch and Nicholson on Canada expedition, 451. General embargo to be laid, 451. Advised to protect against privateers, 451. Inhabitants not to serve on in- quests, complain, 455. Complaint against holding several offices at same time, 456. Complaint against T. McMara, a lawyer, 457. Embargo removed, 467. Taxes, 468, 478. Various tribes of In- dians at, 469. Swedish minister attacks B. Chambers,' 477, 478. James Logan to be committed to jail, 507. Governor's order to Sheriff to protect him, 508. In- dians at, 516. Act for regulating property in, 528. Acts, various, relating to, passed and published at the Court house, 529. Indians arrive on way to Canada, 537. Road from opposite Jno. Reading's landing to, record of, 542, 549, 561. Laws, 550. N. Pool's road, 561, 562. Indians in, 565. A suspicious vessel to be seized and examined, 566. Given up, 567. Reputation of flour injured, 568. Corporation to attend Council at publication of laws, 571. Indians arrive, 574. King George pro- claimed at market place, 575. Mayor Hill gives a dinner, 575. Justices for the several Courts appointed, 597. Indians arrive, 599, 603, 606, 613.
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Wm. Keith arrives and is pro- claimed at Court house Governor of province, iii., 13. Justices commissioned, 28. Mayor and Recorder commissioned by Gov- ernor, 28. Governor Spotswood of Virginia in, 30. Owen Roberts, Sheriff-Enoch Story, Sheriff, 30, 69, 140. Jonathan Dickinson, Mayor, 31. Richard Walker, Coroner, 31, 56, 169. Indian chiefs arrive at, and have a con- ference, 45. Justices, 50. Peti- tion from inhabitants of Northern Liberties respecting land between, and Whitsahickon mills, there being no road, 50. Suspected pirates cognizable in Mayor's Court, 63. Complaints against vendue master for selling small quantities of shop goods, 91, 102. Indians at, 102. Court of Chan- cery to be held at, 106. Road to Wiccacoa, 106. Petition of B. Vining respecting, 107. Deferred, 108. Prisoners under sentence of death at, 109. Road to Wic- cacoa described and confirmed, 110. Hollander's creek - Hay creek, 111. A convenient road cannot be built between, and Chester, on account of "rocks and mountains," 111. Division from Chester county, 111. Ves- sels from sickly ports to be ex- amined by Patrick Baird, Sur- geon, 112. Sheriffs and Coroners, 108, 140. Registers of, vessels, 115. Difficulty about taxes for want of dividing line between Chester county and-decision of Council about, 144-5, 158. A mill erected at Horsham-road asked for, 158. Indians arrive at, 163. Conference with, 163. Ferry at end of High street, post- poned, already sufficient, 166. Wm. Asheton, Recorder, 172. Road to Swede's ford, 225. Wrecked goods arrive from Cape May -- proceedings respecting, 238, 239, 240. Ann Mitchell, under sentence of death, pardoned, 240. Petition against location of pow- der house, referred to four mem- bers of Council, 242, 244. Peti-
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tion of merchants against duty on rum, under proof, 247. Gov. Gordon arrives and is published at Court house, 251. Justices, 257. Robert Asheton invited to this country by proprietary-his long service as Clerk, Prothono- tary, Recorder, &c .- his duties and powers as Recorder, 258. Riots and disorderly practices complained of by Governor-pillory and stocks burned down in the " open " mar- ket place-proclamation, &c., 260, 261. Owen Owen, Sheriff, and Joshua Fincher, Coroner, 260, 289. Assembly ask Governor to protect them from the "rude people of the city," 260. Indians at, 273. Ferry to Wm. Cooper's and Gloucester-Governor objects to an Act, the power being pro- prietary, 277. Number of In- spectors of election, 278. King George II. proclaimed, 282. Pal- atines arrive from Holland, 282. Samuel Preston resigns as Jus- tice, 282. Sickly vessels arrive- health regulations and physicians, 292, 294. Sir Wm. Keith, a member of Assembly from, goes to England, 298. Governor and some of Council leave for Cones- togoe, 309. Large meeting of In- dians and inhabitants at the great meeting house, 318. Owen Owen, Sheriff, 332. Mench Davis, Coro- ner, 332. Indians at, 333. Coun- cil, 334. Rude treatment to As- sembly complained of, 340. Re- commendation of Council on, 340. Governor's speech to Assembly on, 342. Proclamation on riots in, 351. Indian conference at, 361. Sheriffs and Coroners, 370. Ex- amination of servants and passen- gers to be before Mayor of, 375. Wm. Fishburn reported to be robbed, as Treasurer, 387. No roads to Lancaster, 395. To be, 395. Petition of wardens of Christ Church and Keithian meeting house, 394. Act against fire in, 396, 400. Trade with Sugar Is- lands, 401. Indian conference in, 404. Sheriffs, 416, 464, 520, 574. Coroners, 416, 464, 520, 574. In-
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dians at, 425. Bridge over Cobb's creek, 426, 428, 431. Small-pox prevails, 426, 428. Thomas Penn arrives and is congratulated, 433. Conference with Indians at, 435. Indians attacked with small-pox die at, though no person beside was known to have it, 463. Jus- tices commissioned, 491. Buoys, 493. Indians arrive at, 500.
Road from Lancaster laid out, 521. Justices, 531. Evil effects and
number of tippling places in, 534. Road from Bucks county, 542. Proprietor complains of Romish chapel or mass-house erected in Walnut street, and declares that religion contrary to the laws of England, 546, 563. Petition for a new road to Wiccacoa, 547. John Penn, eldest proprietary, arrives, 569. Death of Governor's lady mentioned, 574, 577. Conference with Indians at, 571. Road in Northern Liberties to be reviewed, stone bridge, &c., 573. Alms-
house and provision for the poor, 589, 590. Road to Macousie, 591. Address from Mayor to Coun- cil on claim of Maryland to the territories, 594. Conestoga and Susquehanna Indians arrive at, 598, 608; and conference, 608. Sheriffs, 614. Coroner, 614. Re- turn of road from Maquenusic to, 617. Petition respecting Court of Chancery, history of, &c., 617.
Act proposed for providing for safe-keeping of public records in, iv., 11, 17, 21, 35, 483. Evans, Register Gen'l of Probate of Wills, 33. State House vested in trustees, 46, 483. Petition against Court of Chancery, 35. Execution of two men, 47. Indian conference in Philadelphia, 53. Trial of criminals in jail, 71. Indian con- ference at, 79-85. Sheriffs elected, 85, 247, 309, 352, 469, 500, 600, 669, 748, 782. Coroners elected, 85, 247, 309, 352, 469, 500, 601, 669, 782. Unusual number of Indians in, much disordered with liquor-public order against sup- plying it, 86, 87. Treaty and pur- chase of lands from Indians, and
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speeches, 65-95. Charles Read, clerk of Orphans' Court, dies- Thomas Hopkinson is appointed, 151. Insolence of negroes in, 244. Road from Lancaster to, 247, 495, 503. Proclamations ordered to be printed in, for Maryland, 254. Road from John Harris's to, 278. Governor Thom- as arrives and enters on his duties, 288. Proclamation to be made, 289. Cost of flag to be raised on Governor's arrival from Antigua, 304. Reports of Dr. Græme on sickly vessels, 306. Indians at, 307, 312, 337. Petition from Mayor, &c., to Governor to raise money on citizens, 376-379. Ed- ward Roberts is Mayor, 379. Bill for raising money, 384, 385. Gov- ernor's message on, 385. Objects to it, 386. Pilots to be restrained from taking vessels up without license, 394. Proclamation against Spain read at Town-house, rejoic- ings, &c., 396. Assembly's rea- sons on bill for raising money from, 408. Governor's answer to, 409. A man wounded by an In- dian, sent to and placed under care of Dr. Græme, 413. Messages to and from Governor and Assem- bly on money bill, 414-420. Coun- cil with Indians in Quaker meet- ing-house, 432, 443-447. Justices, 482. Acts for vesting State House in trustees confirmed, 483. Peti- tion for roads, 495, 503. Resolu- tion respecting Drs. Græme and Zachary as health officers, 496. Dispute between Assembly and Council as to appointment, 497-8. Cayuga Indians arrive, 500. Pest house - discussion about, and health office, &c., 507-559. In- dians of Six Nations arrive and hold conference about lands, &c., 559-583. Names of Indians pre- sent, 583-586. Famine and great distress among Senecas, 564. Sick passengers arrive and are landed at, 568. Council at, 569-586. Election riots in, 620-624. In- dians at, 742. French privateers capture vessels, 749. Indians to be tried by Supreme Court at, 751,
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752. Division of County with Lancaster proposed, 756. Robert Strettell, Mayor, 762. Indians from Shamokin arrive, 767.
Poor-house and overseers, v., 30, 32. Sheriffs elected, 55, 120, 411, 464, 561, 597, 662. Coroners elect- ed, 55, 120, 411, 464, 597, 662. Road from Bristol laid out and con- firmed, 59, 60, 61. Petition of N. Craft against, rejected, 61. Council Chamber to be in State House, 69. A French flag of truce arrives with prisoners and free negroes, 71, 74. Another flag of truce arrives, 77. Proclamation respecting flags of truce and pilots to be read at Court House, 82. Spaniards design stealing a boat in harbor, 92. Road to New Cas- tle, 105, 121, 130. Captain Hus- ton recruits for Colonel Shirley's regiment, 105. Vessel from Bar- badoes, with yellow fever, arrives -ordered below, 104. Justices elected, 106, 110. Orders of Pre- sident to Captain Cox to remove his vessel from, 106. Road to New Castle, order respecting, 107. Complaint against Captain Cox's ship, 107. Proclamation against, 109. Drs. Græme and Bond to visit her, 109. Arrival of pala- tines, 113. Spanish prisoners suffering in jail, 121. Pieces of eight counterfeited by Jones and Barnes, 119, 141. Indians from Ohio arrive, 145. Conference with, 146-151. Petition from merchants to Assembly to put the city, &c., in a state of defence-a man-of- war, &c .-- association formed, &c., 158. Letter to proprietaries on defenceless state of, 160. Batte- ries formed, 161. Declaration of Council to, 168. Alarming state of affairs, from sickness, war, &c., 168. Proclamation for a fast day, 169. Attack from enemies ex- pected, 169. Loan of cannon re- quested from Governors Clinton and Shirley, till those from Eng- land should arrive, 173; and cruizers off capes, 174. Associa- tors form companies and elect officers, 174. A list of them, 193.
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Answers of Governors Clinton and Shirley, 189, 198. Commander of Cape Breton written to for cannon, 203. Governor Clinton, 205. Gov- ernor Shirley, 206. Ad. Knowles, 207. For men-of-war, 207. Offi- cers commissioned, 209, 247. Gov- ernor Clinton furnishes cannon, 215, 216. Prisoners require pro- visions, 232. Their arrival not approved of, 237. Prisoners to keep house after sunset, 238. Otter, man-of-war, John Ballet, commander, arrives, 239. T. Penn promises cannon when batteries are erected and militia law passed, 240. Captain Ballet meets Coun- cil, 241. Entertained at Roberts' coffee-house, 243. T. Penn on sickness about the dock, 244. Cap- ture of Captain Geo. Porteus, 245, Council sits every morning at City Court-house, 246. Committee to consult with Captain Ballet, 246. Batteries erected-Colonel Taylor commands, 249. Disappointment in procuring Trembleur privateer, resolutions adopted by Council, · 250. Commission to Colonel Tay- lor, 251. Alarms from privateers -embargo, &c., 245-260. Cap- tain Jones elected Colonel, 256. Express sent to Lewes T., 257. Proceedings to fit out a privateer at, 258, 260. Fears of Captain Randolph's ship at New Castle, 260. Various depositions, 260- 264. Captain Randolph's ship ordered up by Captain Ballet- protest, &c., 264. Intelligence- boat commissioned, 266. Captain Sibbald to command batteries, 267. Artillery company formed, 267. Powder house-order respecting watch, &c., 268. Block-house at battery, 269. Recruits to be raised, 269. Embargo removed, 274. Road to New Castle, 303. Letter to proprietaries respecting, 320. Officers appointed, 325. Procla- mation of treaty at Aix la Cha- pelle, &c., published at Court- house, 362. Gov. James Hamilton arrives, and commission pub- lished, 362. Proclamation of peace published, 381. Justices
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appointed, 388. Indians arrive and have conference, 388. Pro- clamation against selling rum to Indians in the city, 397. Indians arrive, 398. Bills for regulating nightly watch, lighting streets, and raising money, 502, 505, 506, 512, 514, 619 ; and accidents by fire, 505, 514, 619. Hospital for sick poor and lunatics proposed, 513, 516, 526, 619. A French vessel puts in, in distress, and is allowed to refit, 528. Nanticoke Indians arrive from Wyomen, 543. Justices appointed, 572. John Penn, eldest son of Richard, arrives and becomes member of Council, 606. Law respecting fires, 619. New county out of, 619. Two Shawnese sick in, 704. Distances, &c., from, to Ohio, 759.
Governor Hamilton resigns, and Robert Hunter Morris' commis- sion is read at Court-house, vi., 144. Sheriffs elected, 144, 638. Coroners elected, 144, 638. Sick- ness prevails from palatine ships -Mr. Bourne, health officer- Council doubt their power to visit ships, 169. Full reports of Drs. Bond and Græme, 171-173 ; and · also on contagious fevers in city, 173-175. Report of palatines buried, 175. History of contagi- ous fevers in, 173-190. Indian conferences at, 193-199, 204-206, 243, 244, 277-286. An open road from, to mouth of Conogochege, 302. General Shirley's son re- cruiting in Philadelphia, 303. General Shirley and Governor De Lancey arrive, on way to Anna- polis, 358. Indian conferences at, 360-365, 370. Embargo, 451. Permission to certain vessels to sail, 451. Colonel Dunbar desires winter quarters for his troops after Braddock's defeat, 513. Gov- ernor to Mayor, &c., on winter quarters for Col. Dunbar's troops, 516, 521, 533. Indians arrive and have conference, 522-524. Gov- ernor informs Mayor, &c., of French being secreted in city, 663. Account of arms taken, 665. Indian conference at, 682-689.
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Letter of Governor calling for help against Indians, 710. French neu- trals, 711. Proceedings respect- ing, 713, 729. Large delegations from Chester and Berks coming to compel passage of certain laws, 729. Remonstrance of Mayor, &c., to Assembly, on militia bill and means of defence, 734, 766. Ar -! tillery company, and officers in, 770. Soldiers arrive from New York, 773-775.
Companies formed and offi- cers elected, vii., 36, 40. French neutrals, 15, 32, 44, 55, 58, 390. Indian conference, 46- 55, 64, 137, 144. Battery com- pany, 62. Company officers, their names, 62. Magistrates appoint- ed, 62. Nightly watch, 63, 72, 90, 177, 184, 246, 390, 392. Ad- dress of Quakers to Governor on declaration of war with Delaware Indians, 84. War proclaimed at Court-house, 88. Suspension of, 144. M. Bell applies to export provisions, 168. William Denny proclaimed Governor at Court- house, 221. Stageboat and wagon between, and New York, 222. Fines diverted from corporation, 257. Small-pox at, 309, 358. Ad- dress of Quakers to, and answer, 312. Number of public houses- quarters required for military, 349, 352, 356, 359, 400, 406, 407, 430, 443. Colonel Bouquet, Earl Loudoun, Col. Stanwix, through Captain Tulliken, demand quar- ters for soldiers-proceedings of Mayor Shute and others respect- ing them, 359, 367, 406, 443. Va- rious proceedings respecting, 360- 374. Mayor and aldermen remon- strate against Assembly, 366. Merchants petition to ship provi- sions -rejected, 393. Justices, 433. Indians arrive, 436. Num- ber of Roman Catholics in, 448. Minutes of meeting of Governors at, with Earl of Loudoun, 470. Clerks of Orphans' Court, 501. Passport for Indians from Lancas- ter to, 549. Complaint of treaty made by Quakers at, 634. Chas. Thomson, keeper of Quaker
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school, 665. List of Philadelphia
shipwrights taken at Oswego, 717,
737. Proposal to send troops
from, to New York, 719. Names of chiefs at, 726. Petition of Richard Hill and S. Preston Moore to make title to certain lands in, 728, 739, 740. Petition of ship-
wrights from Oswego, 737. Gov-
ernor produces certificate of Rob-
ert Jenny, Rector of Christ
Church, of having taken sacra-
ment, 741. Justices of peace, 769.
Conference with Indians at,
viii., 9, 29, 40, 51, 54, 86, 101,
114, 149, 265, 484-494, 667, 698,
707, 709, 712. Tonnage duty ob- jected to, as injurious to business of, 31, 41. Names of Indians in, 31. Conference with, 32, 86.
Embargo at, 38. Abraham Tay-
lor, collector, 39. Fort at Wic-
cacoa to prevent passage of ves- sels, 39. Guards to be reinforced from General Otway's regiment, 39. Two good horses to be at, 71.
Tax on unimproved lots in, 80. Teedyuscung in, 86. Flag of truce arrives with prisoners from New Orleans, 124. Indians arrive from Virginia, 124. Message received by Peters and Pemberton from Cherokees to Delawares, 135. A French flag of truce captured by privateer Spry in Delaware Bay, 139. Embargo, 146. Fort at Wiccacoa to be guarded, and can- non charged, to prevent evasion of embargo, 147. Barracks at, 147. Spanish vessel arrives with goods wrecked on an English ves- sel near Cuba, 155. Embarrassm't about Dutch vessels and registers, 155. Arrival of Cherokees, Mo- hawks, Scarroyda's wife and chil- dren ask for guns and horses, 163. Coroners appointed, 223, 403, 506, 781. Sheriffs appointed, 223, 403, 506, 781. Petition of merchants against duty on tonnage, 230, 232. Thanksgiving day appoint- ed, 235. Difficulty about soldiers' quarters at, 262. Indian confer- ence with General Forbes at, 263- 269, 270. French neutrals at, in distress, 268, 719. General Am-
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herst in, 324. Barracks of, de-
scribed, 331. College, Academy and Charity School, condition and statistics of, 339. Act for sup- pressing lotteries and plays pro- posed, and instances in which they have been useful, 340. Lottery for fortification of, 340; and for finishing the Episcopal church, 340. Order to James Coultas, she- riff, to imprison Rev. Dr. Wm. Smith, 443. Act passed for keep- ing banks, dams, &c., at Point- no-Point, in order, 480; and at Greenwich Island, 482, 484. Con- ference with Indians at, 489-494, 497-500. Execution of Jas. Brule- man, 506. Proceedings on death of King George II., 515-520. Sale and purchase of lands for Oxford Church, 574. For keeping banks, &c., in order-merchants' memo - rial against, 574. Piers in Dela- ware, 574. Banks at Darby creek to be made, &c., 575 .. Justices commissioned, 575. Old ones superseded, 575. Petition of mer- chants against duty on negroes,
576. Vaughan's regiment to be moved from New York to Phila- delphia, 578. Conference at, 594, 614-620, 654-661, 667. Women attacked and wounded in streets of, 671. Proclamation against, 672. Act proposed for vesting State House in trustees, 676, 715. Act proposed erecting District of Southwark, 695, 698. Roads and
highways, 694, 695. War with Spain proclaimed, 698, 703, 706. Embargo laid, 713. Arrest of Messrs. Boyrie and Le Roy, 714. Trustees of State House to pur- chase rest of the square, 715.
Record of Court for trial of ne- groes in, ix., 5. Indian confer- ences at, 6-9, 44, 77, 328, 604, 689, 737. Proclamation of peace between France and Spain, 15, 39, 41. Nuisances to be removed- highways, &c., to be regulated, and wagoners, &c., 22, 24. Marsh and meadows, 24. Tavern li- censes, 24. Petition, Spanish ship in distress at ; J. Gibson ap- pointed factor, 26. Thanksgiving
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day, 41. Christ Church bells rung and cannons fired for peace be- tween France and Spain, 41. Watching and lighting, 54, 243, 247, 543, 723. Lighthouse, buoys, lottery for paving streets, &c., 56, 580. Sheriffs elected, 57, 199, 286, 333, 398, 547, 623, 688, 777, Coroners elected, 57, 199,
286, 333, 398, 547, 688, 777. Governor's proclamation against highway robbery about, 70, 76, 316. Governor John Penn pro- claimed, bells rung and battery guns fired, &c., 72. Proclamation of Governor Penn for highway robbery and murder of Henry Hamilton, 76. Paxton boys pre- paring to march to, 108. High- landers, under Captain Robinson, in, 110. Troops from Genl. Gage, 129. Attack on barracks expected, meeting called at State House, 132. Memorial of Indians in bar- racks at, 135. On their removal, 137. An interior county, 138. Indians to be removed from bar- racks, 170. Or retained at public expense, 171. Justices, 205, 237. Provincial Commissioners, 237. Letter from, 240. Lotteries for
various purposes, 56, 57, 148, 243, 579. Embanking and drain- ing a lot in Kinsessing, 245, 247. New election ordered for member of Assembly, on account of tie vote, 287. Seven Wardens ap- pointed, for bill regulating pilots, their names, 293, 294. Lighting, watching, pilotage, &c., 294, 366,
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