Proceedings at a Council Held at Fort George (January 9, 1764) - 1
the City of New York on Monday the Ninth
Day of January 1764
Present
The Honorable Cadwallader Golden Esqr. Lieut. Governor,
Mr. Horsmonden Mr. Walton
Mr. Smith
Mr. Watts Earl of Stirling
His Honour the Lieutenant Governor communicated to the Council
a Letter of the 5th Instant, from the Honourable John Penn
Esqr Governor of Pensilvania, representing that the back,
Inhabitants of that Province had carried their resentment
against the Indians so far, as to kill some who had lived,
under the faith and protection of the government for sixty
years, in an Indian Town near Lancaster That not
content with this barbarous outrage, they in open day-
time, march'd into that town, and there murdered fourteen
more Indians, who were put ^in^ there by the magistrate for
their security, and after perpetrating these horrid violences,
had even threatned to come and hill a number of Indians
that he gave leave to sit down in an Island on Schuyl-
kill in the Neighbourhood of Philadelphia. That this
night have been easily prevented, as there are arm
and men enough but that these Indians who are of a
mild and peaceable Disposition, desired they might be
permitted to go to Sir William Johnson's from whence they
could easily be sent to the Heads of the Susquehanna,
[Transcribed by Ethan M Reczka.]
