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Proceedings at a Council Held at Fort George (January 9, 1764) - 3

support and protect them, whom they still consider as their
Enemy. That the Hand on which these Indians were
before seated appears to the Council a place equally well
adapted to their security and protection as any within this
Province. And therefore the Council unanimously advised
his Honour not to receive the said Indians within this govern-
ment or to suffer them to pass thro' the Province, but to
have the proper orders to the justices and magistrates of
Richmond County to stop and cause them to return.

A true Copy

Exam by
[Signature]

[Transcribed by Ethan M Reczka.]

Contents of this annotation:

Proceedings. Present Lieut.-Gov. Cadwallader Colden, [Daniel] Horsmanden, [William] Smith, Mr. [John, Watts, Mr. [William] Walton, [William Alexander,] Earl of Stirling; attacks on the Indians by settlers near Lancaster, Pennsylvania; peaceable Indians, on an island in Schuylkill near Philadelphia, molested; Gov. Penn wishes the Indians removed to New York; the Council disapproves and advises governor of New York, not to receive them. Attested copy, signed by Gw. [Goldsborow] Banyar. Endorsed : Minutes inclosed in Gov. Colden's Letter of Jan. 1764. (Read in Council 16th Jany 1764)."