dentials, & thinking themselves unable to bear the Charge of a Review, the said Road was confirmed; That not only great Irregularities have hapned in laying out the same, being marked for about twelve Miles through the said townships on a multitude of very different Courses, crossing several Mountains and rocky and low Grounds, where it is impossible, or at least very difficult to make a Road fitt for Carts & Carriages to pass, & where it is very injurious to the Lands of many of the Petitioners, but likewise the Courses & Distances thereof, as the same are returned, being since truly run & measured, are found in many Places to vary above a quarter of a Mile from the Line of Trees marked for the said Road, & to cross several good Plantations & peices of Meadow Ground where a Road was never intended to be laid. And forasmuch as a Road much more usefull to the Publick than that so erroniously surveyed & returned as aforesaid, & not in the least prejudicial to any Body, can be had to the high Road aforesaid leading to Philadelphia, The Petitioners therefore Pray that this Board will be pleased to Order a sufficient Number of substantial Freeholders to lay out the same from the Division Line between the Counties of Lancaster & Chester to the said High Road leading from Lancaster to Philadelphia.

With the last recited Petition was exhibited a Copy of an Entry made in the Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace for the County of Chester, in these Words:

"Chester, ss.

"At a Court of Quarter Sessions held and kept at Chester for the said County, the twenty-ninth day of November, Annog. Dom., 1737, Before Richard Hayes, John Crosby, Joseph Brinton, Caleb Cowpland, Esqrs., Justices Present. It is thus Contained, viz.:

"Upon the Application of severall of the Inhabitants of the Townships of Whiteland and Caln, & for the Clearing of the Road laid out by Order of the Governor & Council from Harris' Ferry, in or near Paxton, to Edward Kinnisson's in the Valley. Whereupon the Court taking the same into Consideration, and by the Information of several Persons, that to clear the said Road would be altogether Impracticable, by Reason the Courses & Distances therein is in many places exceeding Irregular; Therefore prays that the Honourable President & Council would be pleased to take the same into their Consideration, & make such Order for the Regulation thereof as to their Honours may seem most Convenient. "To the Honble President & Council for the Province of Pennsylvania, &

A true Copy P. to Parker Cler.

In Support of which Petition against the said confirmed Road, a

Gentleman of the Law attending & praying to be heard, Mr. Hamilton was admitted & heard; And the Board being informed that Mr. Eastburn the Surveyor General had lately run & measured several of the disputed Courses & Distances, he was sent for, who attending was called in, & gave an Account that he had taken the Courses & Distances of that part of the said Road lying within the County of Chester, that tho' there was some small Variation between the Line of marked Trees & the Courses laid down in the Return, yet that he did not look upon the same to be any wise material, or to be greater than would happen between one Artist & another, allowing for the Difference of Instruments and Chain Carriers.

Mr. Hamilton & Mr. Eastburn being withdrawn, The Board are of Opinion, that the Petitions aforesaid be continued under Consideration, and as none of the Petitioners for the confirmed Road do now appear, It is Ordered that both Parties have Notice to attend this Board the twentieth day of March next, to be then fully heard on the Subject of their respective Petitions.

At a Council held at Philadia., March 14th, 1737-8.

PRESENT:

The Honble JAMES LOGAN, Esqr., President,

Samuel Preston,

Clement Plumstead,

Thomas Laurence,

Thomas Griffitts, } Esqrs.

The President laid before the Board a Representation transmitted to him from the County of Lancaster, signed by Mr. Blunston, which being read gives an Account, that about eleven a clock on Sunday night, the fifth current, two Indian Young Men coming into the House of Samuel Bethel in Lancaster town, one of them having a drawn knife in his hand, and asking for drink, they were with some Difficulty perswaded to leave the House, & the Door being fastned, one of them with Violence darted a Board thro' a Glass Window; that two Men, to witt, Daniel Southerland & John Iverson, going out to prevent those Indians from doing further Mischief, one of them wounded Southerland in the Belly with a Knife, & turning to Iverson stabbed him also in the Breast; that tho' neither of the Wounds are apprehended to be mortal, yet both of them, especially Southerland's, are yet very ill; That next morning some Persons from Lancaster town went after those Indians & brought one of them back, whom they secured in Prison, but the other Indian could not be found, tho' sought for by his own People; That Mr. Blunston had hereupon conferred with some of the Indian old Men, who had desired that an Account of the Matter might be sent hither, & that upon their receiving a Letter from hence they

would call their chief People together and take Counsel on the Affair.

The President added that the Messenger from Lancaster had informed him that the Indians, being under a great Surprize and about to leave their town, on hearing one of their People was committed to Prison, it was thought prudent, especially as the wounds. were not believed to be mortal, to release the Prisoner on the Indians becoming bound to produce him when required.

The Board entering into the Consideration hereof, delivered their Sentiments of what they conceived necessary to be done on the present Occasion, & agreeably thereto the following Letter having been prepared was signed by the President, in order to be transmitted to Mr. Blunston, to be by him laid before the Indian Chiefs in and about Conestogoe:

"Our Friends and Brethren:

"Philadia., March 14th, 1737-8.

"On receiving an Account of the late barbarous action committed by two of your young Men in Lancaster town, upon the Persons of two of our People, we were wery much concerned for the folly and wickedness of it, and say thus to you upon that Subject:

"You are fully sensible that by the many past Treaties between you and us, it is in the firmest manner established & agreed that we should be all as one People; that Wrongs done by any of either side should be redressed & the Offenders punished without any Distinction, and you well know that when any of our People have taken the Life of an Indian, the guilty Persons have been putt to death for it as if the Injury had been done to one of ourselves without any Difference; therefore, when any of yours are guilty of any such Crime, we do expect they shall in like manner be punished for it; and in all Cases of this Nature we consider the guilty Person only, if he be a Christian; no other Christian or white Man is putt to any trouble; & in the same manner if he be an Indian, we do not account any other Indian answerable for it but the guilty only, and he alone is to be punished; Only this is to be remembred, that if any of our People committ a Crime and fly for it, our Officers and People search after them and must find them, and so we expect that when any of yours committ a Crime, your People shall undertake to find them, and cause them to be kept in Prison till they can be prosecuted & punished; but if the Offence is not Murther or some such grievous Crime, we sometimes let them have their Liberty out of Prison, when one or more good Men will become bound for their Appearance, and will produce or bring them forth when called on by the Government, to be punished either in their Bodies or to be fined in a Sum of money to make Satisfaction for their offence; And this Method we perceive our Officers & good friends, Samuel Blunston and the other Magistrates, have

taken with the young Man whom they seized for committing that cruel Act on Persons who had done him & his Companion, who has fled, no manner of Harm, but were endeavoring only to restrain their Violence and make them quiet after they had broke the Window of a House to pieces, without any Provocation.

"This Proceeding of Samuel Blunston and the other Majistrates you must, without doubt believe, was an Act of great Mildness towards you, and such as would scarce have been Shewn to any white Men in the like Case. You cannot, however, but well know in yourselves, that if either of the wounded Men should die of their Wounds, those that gave the Wound should suffer for it in the same manner as if a white Man had done the Act; and if this should happen, we shall expect that not only the young Man whom our Officers seized and have since trusted to your keeping, but the other also who hath fled, shall be apprehended, and be both delivered up to be punished; but if the wounded Persons recover, as we hope they will, those two Offenders besides making Satisfaction to the Sufferers, should pay all the Charge of their Cure and of nur sing and keeping; and if the two Indian young Men are not able of themselves to do this, their friends should help them & do it for them, till by their own Diligence in Hunting they can make Satisfaction; they must likewise faithfully promise to behave themselves well & peaceably towards all our People for the future, that no just Cause of further Complaint may be given against them. And on this Occasion we would desire you to caution all your young Men not to come amongst our People with any dangerous Weapons, that all further Mischief may be avoided, for we must all live friendly & peaceably together; we are to take Care that none of our People shall hurt yours, and you must take the like Care that none of yours be disorderly or hurt any, either white Men or Indians. And as we cannot doubt but in this and all other Cases you will shew yourselves true & good Men, by faithfully performing what you have repeatedly engaged by your Treaties with us, we desire that you who are innocent may not be under any fear or Apprehension, for we should not think you accountable more than our own People, the white Men that inhabit there; And in this we desire you to rest satisfied, and are

"Your true friends and Brethren,

"In behalf of the Proprietor and the Council,

"JAMES LOGAN.

At a Council held at Philadia., March 22d, 1737-8.

PRESENT:

The Honble JAMES LOGAN, Esqr., President.

Samuel Preston,

Clement Plumsted,

Thomas Laurence,

Samuel Hasell,

Thomas Griffitts, Esqrs.

The Minute of Council of the 27th of February being read and approved,

On resuming the Consideration of the Petitions for and against the Road confirmed in Council the 24th of March last, the Board this day made the following Order:

Whereas, upon a return made to this Board of a certain high Road laid out from the Plantation of John Harris on Sasquehanna, thro' the Counties of Lancaster and Chester, till the same falls in with the high Road in Whiteland township, at or near the Plantation of Edward Kennison in the last-named County, the Road aforesaid was, by an Order of Council of the 24th day of March last, approved and confirmed: And Whereas, two Petitions were presented and read at this board the 27th ult, the one of divers Inhabitants of the townships of Calne, Whiteland, and Uchland, in the County of Chester aforesaid, setting forth the great Inconveniency of that part of the said Road which passes thro' the said townships, and that there is a very considerable Variation between the Courses thereof as returned to this Board and the Line of marked Trees, for which Reason the Justices of the said County had delayed issuing Orders to the Overseers of the Highways for opening and clearing the same, and therefore praying a Review thereof within the said County, The other being a Petition of divers Inhabitants of the county of Lancaster, setting forth the general Conveniency of the said confirmed Road, and that the Difference, if any, between the Courses in the Return & the Line of marked Trees is inconsiderable, and therefore praying that no Alteration may be made in the Road aforesaid; The Consideration of which Petitions being this day resumed, the parties, pursuant to Notice given them, now attending were fully heard, and it evidently appearing to the Board that a very wide and manifest Mistake had been made in the Return aforesaid, It is Ordered that Caleb Pierce, Samuel Levis, Aaron James, Moses Key, Thomas Gilpin, and Samuel Bunting, of the County of Chester, do review the said Road from the Place where it crosses the Line of the Counties of Lancaster and Chester, and where they find the same to be already commodiously laid out; that they take the Courses and Distances thereof exactly, but in such Places of it where it may be rendred more generally convenient, they make such Alterations, according to the best of their Judgment, as may truly answer the Intention of accommodating