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" We have," said they, " with the most sensible concern and pain of mind, observed the sorrowful alteration in the state of this late peaceful province, now become the theatre of bloodshed and rapine, and distressed by the cruel devastations of a barbarous enemy, which justly excites the most aggravating reflections in every considerate mind; yet when we con- sider that all wars are attended with fatal consequences, and one with enemies so savage as those who have now become ours, with circumstances the most shocking and dreadful, we cannot omit beseeching, that before the resolution of declaring war against them be carried into execution, some farther attempts may be made, by pacific measures, to reduce them to a sense of their duty, and that a further opportunity may be offered to such as may be willing to separate from those who have been the wicked instruments of perverting them."
" The settlement of this province was founded on the principles of truth, equity, and mercy, and the blessings of Divine Providence attended the
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early care of the first founders to impress these principles on the minds of the native inhabitants, so that when their numbers were great, and their strength vastly superior, they received our ancestors with gladness, and granted them peaceable possession of the land, and for a long course of time gave constant and frequent proofs of a cordial friendship, all of which we humbly ascribe to the infinite wisdom and goodness of God, " whose hand is for good upon all that seek him;" and as the angelic acclamation of glory to God in the highest, peace on earth, and good-will to men, with which the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ was published, and the example and precepts which he, as the prince of peace, gave through the course of his personal appearance on earth, have given us undoubted assurance that the day is dawned in which his peaceable reign will be exalted, and gra- dually become universal; we cannot, without neglect of our duty, and sacrificing the peace of conscience, we prefer to every temporal blessing, omit reviving our testimony in this time of probation, that all wars appear to us contrary to the nature and end of the gospel dispensation, and that we, as a people, still firmly believe, that on an humble and steady acqui- escence with the dispensations of Divine Providence, our real protection and security depends, from which no temporal inconveniences and diffi- culties can justify our departing."
" Yet, while we earnestly desire all may attain this happy experience, we do not presume to prescribe; but as our minds feel more than our words can express, of pain and anxiety for our brethren and fellow chris- tians, whose desolation, we fear, will be increased, and perpetuated by a hasty declaration of war, we find ourselves obliged to beseech the governor to resume the most weighty, serious, and religious deliberation on this melancholy occasion, that so every measure which hath been pursued, and whatever remains possible to be done to prevent so fatal and lamentable an extremity, may be strictly and impartially reviewed and considered; that full inquiry may be made, whether some apprehensions these Indians have conceived of a deviation from the integrity towards them so conspicu- ous in the first establishment, may not unhappily have contributed in some degree to the alteration of their conduct towards us; that full time may be allowed for those Indians who still remain well affected towards us, to use and report the effect of their endeavours to reconcile our enemies, and. that proper care may be taken to prevent our allies being, through the misconduct or evil disposition of any, injured in such manner as to provoke them likewise to their arms against us; and that the governor's care to guard against involving the innocent with the guilty, may carry so clear demonstration of christian tenderness, and aversion to shedding blood, that an evidence may be given to the minds of the other neighbouring Indians, which may engage them heartily and sincerely to assist in the desirable work of restoring peace. and tranquillity, towards which all the measures hitherto taken seem to have contributed little good effect."
" We, therefore, with sincerity and ardency, pray, that the calamities may be averted which will ensue on a continued war with these savages, some of the melancholy effects of which the annals of a neighbouring province, full of the most warlike people, have testified; and as the fear of God, ho- nour of the king, love of our brethren, and fellow christians, are the motives which engaged us to make this address, we hope to demonstrate by our conduct that every occasion of assisting and relieving the distressed, and contributing towards the obtaining of peace, in a manner consistent with our peaceable profession, will be cheerfully improved by us, and even though a much larger part of our estates should be necessary than the heaviest taxes of a war can be expected to require, we shall cheerfully by voluntary grants evidence our sincerity 'herein."
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INDIAN WAR-1763.
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Late in May, a number of Delaware Indians presented themselves oppo- site to fort Pitt, with fifteen horse load of skins and furs, which they traded with the garrison, with great haste and indifference as to the price. These circumstances occasioned surprise and suspicion, which was increased by an intimation from one of the savages to a Mr. M'Kee, that he must leave the fort before the expiration of four days; and by the nocturnal removal of a party of Indians from a settlement they possessed a few miles up the Allegheny. A few days after, the warrior Wolf, and other Delawares, mur- dered and scalped colonel Clapham, and four of his people, of whom two were women; these were treated with the most brutal indecency. Two soldiers, who were stationed at a saw-mill, in the vicinity of the fort, were also killed and scalped. A company of traders, belonging to Messrs. Allison and Calhoune, driving twenty-five horses, loaded with skins and furs, were fired upon as they were crossing Beaver creek, and several of them killed. Two men, who were sent with an express in the night to fort Venango, were fired upon, and compelled to return, one of them being wounded.
A party of seven or eight Indians fired upon the garrison at fort Ligo- nier, without other damage than the killing some horses.
On the thirtieth of June, a party of the enemy attacked fifteen persons mowing in Mr. Croghan's field, near Bedford, killed and scalped three of them.
On Sunday morning, the tenth of July, the Indians attacked the house of William White, on the Juniata, between thirty and forty miles from Car- lisle, in which there were four men and one lad. Upon the approach of the Indians, White having opened the door to ascertain the cause of the noise he heard, was instantly shot down. Those in the house drew in the body of White and shut the door; but observing through the window the Indians attempting to set fire to the house, they attempted to force their way through the door, but the first that stepped out being shot down, the remainder drew him in and closed the door. After which, one attempting an escape out of the window of the loft, was shot through the head, and the lad wounded in the arm. The only one now remaining ( William Rid- dle) broke a hole through the roof of the house, and an Indian who saw him looking out, supposing that he was about to fire upon him, withdrew, and gave him an opportunity of escaping. The house, with the other four in it, was consumed. One M'Machin, who was coming at this moment to the house, without suspicion of the Indians, was fired upon, and wounded in the shoulder, but made his escape.
On the same day, about a mile and a half from White's, the house of Robert Campbell, in which were six men, was also attacked. This party was at dinner, when the Indians rushed in, fired among them, and toma- hawked one of the men. One of the company by the name of George Dodds, snatching a rifle from an adjoining room, shot an Indian through the body, who was levelling his piece at him. The Indian, mortally wounded, staggered and dropped his gun, and was carried off' by three others. Dodds and several others broke through the roof with a view of escaping, and beheld one of their company running slowly, by reason of a wound in his breast, and an Indian pursuing, by whom he was supposed to be slain. The first who attempted to get from the roof was fired at, and drew back; the second, who made the same attempt, was shot dead; and, of the six, Dodds only made his escape.
The same day, about dark, upon the Tuscarora, about thirty miles from Carlisle, the savages murdered one William Anderson, together with a boy
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and a girl, all in one house. At White's and Campbell's, the Indians were from five to ten in number. On Monday, the eleventh, a party of the inhabitants, twenty-four in number, from the upper part of Shearman's valley, and another party of twelve or fourteen from the lower part of this valley, went to reconnoitre, and a party from Carlisle, of between thirty and forty, went out for the same purpose, and to assist in burying the dead. The second party discovered several houses in flames, or burnt down; the reaped grain, in shocks, consumed, and the fences on fire around the stand- ing corn; and the bodies of the murdered settlers mangled by the hogs. This party, apprehending danger, dared not to stay and bury the dead. Upon their return, having passed the Tuscarora mountain, they were fired on by a large party of Indians, and lost six of their number, killed and wounded.
Notwithstanding the efforts of the inhabitants, the Indians pursued their course through Shearman's valley, marking their path with fire and blood. In three days they killed twenty-five of its inhabitants, and wounded many others.
Early in the month of September, about two o'clock in the afternoon, eight Indians came armed to the house of John Fincher, a Quaker, resident over the Blue mountains, in Berks county, about twenty-four miles from Reading, and within three-quarters of a mile of a party of six men of cap- tain Kern's company of rangers, commanded by ensign Sheffer. Upon the approach of the Indians, Fincher, his wife, two sons and daughter, im- mediately went to the door and asked them to enter and eat: expressed their hopes that they came as friends, and entreated them to spare their lives. After some deliberation, however, they slew the parents and two sons; the daughter was missing after the departure of the Indians, and it was supposed, from the cries that were heard by the neighbours, that she also was slain. A little boy, who resided in the house, made his escape, and alarmed the ensign, who immediately went in pursuit of the enemy. He pursued them to the house of one Millar, where he found four children murdered, the Indians having carried off two others with them. Millar and his wife being at work in the field, saved their lives by flight, the man being pursued near a mile by an Indian, who fired at him twice. Conti- nuing the pursuit, the serjeant and his party came up with the savages, and fired upon them. The fire was returned, and a sharp, but short, conflict ensued. The enemy fled, leaving behind them two prisoners, Millar's children, and part of the plunder they had taken. These barbarians had scalped all the persons they had murdered except an infant, about two weeks old, whose brains they had dashed out against the wall. The con- sequence of this massacre was the desertion of all the settlements beyond the Blue mountain.
A few days after these events, the house of Frantz Hubler, in Bern town- ship, eighteen miles from Reading, was attacked, himself wounded, his wife and three children carried off, and three other of his children scalped alive, two of whom soon after died.
Early in October, the house of John Stinton, about eight miles from Bethlehem, was assailed by the Indians, at which was captain Witherholt, with a party belonging to fort Allen. The captain, designing early in the morning to proceed for the fort, ordered a servant out to get his horse ready, who was immediately shot down by the enemy; upon which the captain going to the door, was also mortally wounded, and a sergeant, who attempted to draw the captain in, was also dangerously hurt. The lieu- tenant then advanced, when an Indian jumping on the bodies of the two others, presented a pistol to his breast, which he, putting aside, it went off over his shoulder, whereby he got the Indian out of the house and shut the door. The Indians then went round to a window, and as Stinton was get- ting out of bed, shot him; but, rushing from the house, he was able to run
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a mile before he dropped dead. His wife and two children ran into the cellar; they were fired upon three times, but escaped uninjured. Captain Wetherholt, notwithstanding his wound, crawled to a window, whence he killed one of the Indians who were setting fire to the house; the others. then ran off, bearing with them their dead companion. Captain Wether- holt died soon after.
On the eighth of October, a party of fifteen or twenty Indians attacked the house of captain Nicholas Marks, of Whitehall township, Northampton county. Marks, his wife, and an apprentice boy, made their escape, though twice fired upon by the Indians, and proceeded to the house of one Adam Fashler, where there were twenty men under arms. These immediately went in pursuit of the enemy. In their progress, they visited the farms of Jacob Meekly, where they found a boy and girl lying dead, the girl scalp- ed; of Hance Sneider, where they discovered the owner, his wife, and three children dead, in the field, and three girls, one dead, the other two wound- ed, and one of them scalped. . On their return to Ashler's, they found the wife of Jacob Allening, with a child, lying dead in the road, and scalped. The houses of Marks and Sneider were both burned.
In the commencement of November the savages again appeared on the west of Carlisle, in the vicinity of the north mountain, Shearman's valley, and Bedford, and also in the neighbourhood of Allentown and Bethlehem. They killed and scalped one Williamson, and his two youngest children, and carried the eldest, a girl, into captivity. They also killed and scalped two men, one by the name of William Reed, and the other David Gloss.
February 10, 1764 .- Indians, to the number of fifty, attacked the farm of James Russell, in Northampton county, near fort Penn; burnt his barn, killing one of his sons, and carrying off another .. Officer at that post pur- sued, but did not overtake the Indians.
February 22 .- A party of Indians, six in number, attacked a party from the garrison, at Pitt, out cutting wood, killed one, and severely wounded another. The wounded man drove from him three of the Indians, and escaped into the fort.
February 26 .- John Russell, brother of the lads above mentioned, was attacked by three Indians. He took to a tree, and received three fires from each, returned as many, and drove them off. One shot passed through his hat, another through the sleeve of his coat, and a third wounded him slightly in the calf of the leg.
Monday, 19th March .-- The Indians carried off five people from within nine miles of Shippensburg, and shot one man through the body. The enemy, supposed to be eleven in number, were pursued unsuccessfully by about one hundred provincials. The houses of John Stewart, Adam Sims, James M'Cammon, William Baird, James Kelly, Stephen Caldwell and John Boyd, were burnt. These people lost all their grain, which they had thrashed out with the intention to send it for safety further down among the inliabi - tants.
The bearer of the foregoing intelligence from Carlisle, had nine shots fired at him, one of which lodged in his horse's shoulder .- Extract of a let- ter from Carlisle.
April .- The distresses of the back inhabitants are greater than can be well conceived. Two hundred miles of an extended frontier are so exposed to the incursions of Indians, that no man can go to sleep within ten or fif- teen miles of the border without danger of having his house burned, and himself and family scalped, or led into captivity before the next morning. No man can tell where the Indians will strike the next blow, when they
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have begun their murders and devastations. On the twentieth of last month, Agnes Davidson, and her child, of a year old, Andrew Sims, four- teen years old, Margaretta Stephens, twelve years old, and Joseph Mitchell, three years old, were made prisoners. Seven houses were burned down on the twenty-first, and a great number of horses, cows, sheep, and hogs were killed. On the twenty-second a barn was burned in the Path valley; a horse was killed, and two taken away. About twelve Indians carried off the captives, and seven or eight tarried behind, and did considerable da- mage. The militia officers pursued the enemy without success.
Another letter, dated March 26, states, " many of the inhabitants of the Path and Shearman's valley were purposing to adventure home, but this affair has quite disconcerted their measures, and the people along the north mountain are moving further in, especially about Shippensburg, which is crowded with families of that neighbourhood. Our country has the ap -. pearance of nothing but confusion and distress, which I fear will increase. What shall so many families do, who have spent the winter with us, chiefly supported by the contributions of Philadelphia, in hopes of returning to their settlement in the spring. Many of them have been forced to sell what few cattle they saved to support their families, and others, who, in the fall, would not apply for a share in the public contributions, are obliged, by want, to apply now, when our funds are almost spent. The above seven families got nothing saved but their wearing clothes, so sudden was the alarm; one poor woman, delivered of a child, was obliged to remove in two hours time after."
April 19, 1764 .- David Owens, a deserter from the regulars, who lived some years among the Indians, returned to one of the outposts, bringing with him five fresh Indian scalps, and a white boy, who was a prisoner among the Indians. They relate that they were coming down the Susquehannah with nine Indians, four men, a lad, two women, and two 'children, to fetch corn; that they encamped at night, and made a fire to sleep by. In the night Owens waked the white boy, and made him go from among the Indians; that he then removed their arms, except two guns and a hatchet. With the two guns he shot dead two of the Indian men immediately, and with the hatchet despatched the two women, the Indian lad, and two chil- dren; but two of the men made their escape. Owens staid not far from the place until morning, when he scalped the two men, the women, and the lad, and then gave his knife to the white boy, bidding him scalp the two children; but he declining it, they left them unscalped, and came away.
On Sunday, the twenty-second of July, two or three Indians were seen near fort Loudon. On Wednesday following, a woman, with child, named Cunningham, passing to a neighbour's, was met by the, savages, scalped and murdered, and belly ripped open, and the child left beside her. Another woman, named Jamieson, was missing, supposed to be carried off. On the twenty-sixth, in the forenoon, the enemy came in a school-house on Cone- cocheague creek, twelve or fifteen miles from fort Loudon, in the very heart of the settlement, where they killed and scalped the master, one Brown, and nine of his scholars; that four more, belonging to the school, were thought to be made prisoners. This bloody massacre was discovered by a man passing by, who, hearing no noise in the school, went in, and saw the master lying scalped, with his bible under his arm; that one of the scholars was much wounded, who told him that there were four Indians, who were not seen until they entered the house. Two of the children then murdered belonged to an unhappy man, who had four others carried offby the savages in the last war.
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Names of the members of the provincial conference, convened on the resolution of congress recommending a change in form of the provincial governments.
For the committee of the city of Philadelphia-Benjamin Franklin, t colonel Thomas M'Kean, Mr. Christopher Marshall, jr., major John Bayard, colo- nel Timothy Matlack, colonel Joseph Dean, captain Francis Gurney, major William Coates, Mr. George Schlosser, captain Jonathan B. Smith, cap- tain George Goodwin, Mr. Jacob Barge, Mr. Samuel C. Morris, captain Joseph Moulder, Mr. William Lowman, Dr. Benjamin Rush, Mr. Christo- pher Ludwig, Mr. James Milligan, Mr. Jacob Shriner, captain Sharp De- lany, major John Cox, captain Benjamin Loxley, captain Samuel Brewster, captain Joseph Blewer, Mr. William Robinson.
For the committee of Philadelphia county-Colonel Henry Hill, colonel Robert Lewis, Dr. Enoch Edwards, colonel William Hamilton, colonel John Bull, colonel Frederick Antes, t major James Potts, major Robert Lol- lar, Mr. Joseph Mather, Mr. Matthew Brooks, Mr. Edward Bartholomew.
For the committee of Bucks county-John Kidd, esq., major Henry Wyn- koop, Mr. James Wallace, colonel Joseph Hart, Mr. Benjamin Segle.
For the committee of Chester county-Colonel Richard Thomas, major William Evans, colonel Thomas Hockley, major Caleb Davis, Elisha Price, esq., Mr. Samuel Fairlamb, colonel William Montgomery, colonel Hugh Lloyd, Richard Reilly, esq., colonel Evan Evans, colonel Lewis Greno, major Sketchly Morton, captain Thomas Levis.
For the committee of Lancaster county-William Atlee, esq., Mr. Lodo- wick Lewman, colonel Bartram Galbraith, colonel Alexander Lowry, cap- tain Andrew Graaff, Mr. William Brown, Mr. John Smiley, major James Cunningham, major David Jenkins.
For the committee of Berks county-Colonel Jacob Morgan, colonel Henry Haller, colonel Mark Bird, Dr. Bodo Otto, Mr. Benjamin Spyker, colonel Daniel Hunter, colonel Valentine Eckart, colonel Nicholas Lutz, captain Joseph Heister, Mr. Charles Shoemaker.
For the committee of Northampton county-Robert Levens, esq., colonel Neigal Gray, John Weitzel, esq., Nicholas Depui, esq. Mr. David Deshler, Mr. Benjamin Dupue.
For the committee of York county-colonel James Smith, colonel Robert M'Pherson, colonel Richard M'Allister, colonel David Kennedy, colonel William Rankin, colonel Henry Slagle, Mr. James Egan,t Mr. John Hay, captain Joseph Read.
For the committee of Cumberland county-Mr. James M'Lane, t colonel John Allison, John M'Clay, esq., William Elliott, esq., colonel William Clark, Dr. John Colhoon, Mr. John Creigh, Mr. Hugh M'Cormick, Mr. John Harris, Mr. Hugh Alexander.
For the committee of Bedford county-Colonel David Espy, colonel John Piper, Samuel Davidson, esq.
For the committee of Westmoreland county-Mr. Edward Cooke, Mr. James Perry.
N. B. The persons whose names are marked thus, f did not attend the con- ference.
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Names of the members of the convention of the state of Pennsylvania, held July 15, 1776, at Philadelphia, and continued by adjournment to Sep- tember the twenty-eighth following:
For the city of Philadelphia-Timothy Matlack, Benjamin Franklin, Fre- derick Kuhl, Owen Biddle, James Cannon, George Clymer, George Schlos- ser, David Rittenhouse.
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For the county of Philadelphia-Frederick Antes, Henry Hill, Robert Lollar, Joseph Blewer, John Bull, Thomas Potts, Edward Bartholomew, William Coates.
For the county of Bucks-Joseph Hart, John Wilkinson, Samuel Smith, John Keller, William Vanhorn, John Grier, Abraham Van Middleswarts, Joseph Kirkbride.
For the county of Chester-Benjamin Bartholomew, John Jacobs, Thomas Strawbridge, Robert Smith, Samuel Cunningham, John Hart, John Mackey, John Flemming.
For the county of Lancaster-George Ross, Philip Marsteller, Thomas Porter, Bartram Galbraith, Joseph Sheerer, John Hubley, Henry Slaymaker, Alexander Lowry.
For the county of York-John Hay, James Edgar, William Rankin, Henry Slagle, Francis Crazart, James Smith, Robert M'Pherson, Joseph Donald- son.
For the county of Cumberland-John Harris, Jonathan Hoge, William Clarke, Robert Whitehill, William Duffield, James Brown, Hugh Alexan- der, James M'Clean.
For the county of Berks-Jacob Morgan, Gabriel Hiester, John Lesher, Benjamin Spyker, Daniel Hunter, Valentine Eckart, Charles Shoemaker, Thomas Jones.
For the county of Northampton-Simon Dresbach, Jacob Arndt, Peter Buckhelder, Peter Rhoads, Jacob Stroud, Neigal Gray, Abraham Miller, John Ralston.
For the county of Bedford-Thomas Smith, John Wilkins, Benjamin El- liot, Thomas Coulter, Joseph Powell, Henry Rhoads, John Burd, John Cessna.
For the county of Northumberland-William Cocke, James Potter, Robert Martin, Matthew Brown, Walter Clark, John Kelly, James Crawford, John Weitzell. .
For the county of Westmoreland-James Barr, Edward Cooke, James Smith, John Moore, John Carmichael, James Perry, John M'Clellan, Chris- topher Lavingair.
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Names of members of the assembly and other officers.
For the county of Philadelphia :- John Dickenson, Michael Hillegas, George Gray, Thomas Potts, Samuel Miles, Joseph Parker, Robert Morris, Jonathan Roberts.
For the city of Philadelphia :- Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Mifflin. On the twenty-sixth of February, 1776, Dr. Franklin resigned his seat in the as- sembly; alleging, that his advanced age would not permit him to execute the duties of that office, in addition to those of a member of the committee of safety, and member of congress.
For the county of Chester :- John Morton, Benjamin Bartholomew, James Gibbons, Isaac Pearson, John Jacobs, Charles Humphreys, Joseph Pennock, Joseph Pyle.
For the county of Bucks :- William Rodman, John Heany, Gerardus Wyn- koop, John Foulke, Benjamin Chapman, David Twining, John Brown, Thomas Jenks.
For the county of Lancaster :- Curtis Grubb, Matthias Slough, George Ross, James Webb.
For the county of York :- James Ewing, Michael Swoope.
For the county of Cumberland :- William Allen, John Montgomery.
For the county of Berks :- Edward Biddle, Henry Chriest.
For the county of Northampton :- Peter Kachlein, George Taylor.
For the county of Bedford :- Bernard Dougherty.
For the county of Northumberland .- Samuel Hunter.
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For the county of Westmoreland .- William Thompson.
Members of the proprietaries' and governor's council:
James Hamilton, Joseph Turner, William Logan, Richard Peters, Lynford Lardner, Benjamin Chew, Thomas Cadwallader, James Tilghman, Andrew Allen, Edward Shippen, jr.
Joseph Shippen, jr., provincial secretary, and clerk of the council; Jo- seph Galloway, speaker of the house of assembly; Charles Moore, clerk of the assembly; Owen Jones, treasurer of the province; Benjamin Frank- lin, agent for the province in Great Britain.
Judges of the supreme court:
William Allen, chief justice, John Lawrence, second judge; Thomas Willing, third judge.
Edward Shippen, jr., prothonotary of the supreme court, &c .; Andrew Allen, attorney-general; Benjamin Chew, register-general, &c .; William Parr, master of the rolls, &c.
Proprietaries' officers for land affairs, &c .:
James Tilghman, secretary of the land office; Edmund Physick, receiver- general, and keeper of the great seal; Richard Hockley, auditor-general; John Lukens, surveyor-general.
Principal officers for the customs, for the port of Philadelphia:
John Patterson, collector; Zachariah Hood, comptroller; Richard Hock- ley, naval officer; David Drummond, surveyor and searcher, &c.
Court of admiralty for the province of Pennsylvania, and counties of Newcastle, Kent, and Sussex, upon Delaware:
Edward Shippen, jr., judge; Richard Peters, jr., register; Judah Foulke, marshall.
Court of admiralty, in case of appeals, for the provinces of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia:
Honourable Jared Ingersoll, commissary; James Biddle, deputy-commis- sary; Philip How, register; John Smith, deputy-register; Arodi Thayer, marshal, and sergeant at mace.
About this time, the number of aldermen for the city of Philadelphia consisted of twenty persons; and the common council of thirty-six.
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ERRATA.
For the errors noted in the following list, and for others he may not have etected, the author assigns occasional indisposition, during the passage of he work through the press, as an apology,
Preface, page vii. line 8, for " Robinson," read " Robertson."
Page 12, line 5, for " Swanwendael," read " Swannaandael."
17, line 2, for "1731," read " 1631."'
28, line 6, for "1753," read " 1653."
29, line 27, for "1768," read " 1668."
40, line 4, for " 1780," read "1680." 49, line 22, for " is," read "are." 173, line 28, for "1780," read " 1680."
236, line 34, for " unwillingness," read " willingness."
253, line 23, for "1736," read "1686."
312, line 34, for " Harr's," read " Harris."
319, line 10, for " were," read " was." 366, and elsewhere, for " Bonquet," read "Bouquet."
411, 412, for " 1765," at top of page, read " 1764." 464, line 27, for "it," read " them."
472, line 29, for " Indians," read " brethren."
546, line 14, for " 1782," read " 1682."
565, line 12, for " Debtors," read " A debtor."
Note 2 S has been inadvertently omitted. It contains copies of denun- ciations of persons who had broken the prohibitions of congress.
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