Thomas Edwards, Caleb Peirce, Thomas Reid & Samuel Jones, Esquires.

Robert Barber was likewise appointed Sherif, & Andrew Galbraith Coroner. And Commisions were ordered to be prepared accordingly.

At a Council held at Philadelphia, May 9th, 1729.

PRESENT:

The Honble PATRICK GORDON, Esqr., Lieut. Governour.

James Logan,

William Fishbourn,

Thomas Laurence,

Ralph Asheton,

Samuel Hazle.

Esq'rs.

A Bill sent up from the House, Entituled AN ACT for continuing & establishing a Ferry from the Landing place of Joseph Kirkbride, over Delaware River at the Falls, was read & ordered to be returned without any Amendment.

The Bill for Erecting the upper parts of the Province into a County being again sent up, it appeared the House had added a Clause to the same Effect with that proposed by this Board, 'Tis ordered therefore, that the Bill be sent down & engrossed.

At a Council held at Philadelphia, May 10th, 1729.

PRESENT:

The Honourable PATRICK GORDON, Esqr., Lieut. Governr.

Two Bills sent up from the House, vizt: AN ACT for laying a Duty on Negroes imported into this Province : &

AN ACT laying a Duty on Forreigners & Irish Servants, &c. imported into this Province, were read; the first was agreed to without Amendment & ordered to be returned: But to the other some few were proposed, & being drawn up were ordered to be carried in with the Bill.

And the Clerk of the Council reported to the Board that the House had agreed to the said Amendments.

EODEM DIE, P. M.

The House of Representatives waited on the Governour, & the Speaker presented the following Bills to be passed into Laws, which were accordingly by the Governour passed into Laws of this Province, & Warrants were issued for affixing the Great Seal thereto, vizt: AN ACT for Erecting of Pounds in each Township of this Province.

AN ACT for laying a Duty on Negroes, imported into this Province.

AN ACT Laying a duty on Forreigners & Irish Servants, &c. imported into this Province.

AN ACT for Erecting the upper parts of the Province of Pennsylvania lying towards the Sasquehannah, Conestogoe, Donegal, &c., into a County.

AN ACT for continuing and establishing a Ferry from the Landing place of Joseph Kirkbride, over Delaware River at the Falls.

A SUPPLEMENT to that part of the Act for raising County Rates & Levies relating to the Killing of Wolves.

A SUPPLEMENT to the Act Entituled An Act to prevent Swine running at large: &

AN ACT for Emitting of Thirty thousand Pounds in Bills of Credit for the Better support of Government and the Trade of this Province.

Before passing the last mentioned Act the Governour spoke to the House as followes :

"Gentlemen:

"I am now to pass the Bill agreed on by us for the Emission of "Thirty thousand Pounds more of a Paper Currency, about which so great & so undecent a Noise has been made in some parts of this "Province, that to prevent the Insults intended by some misled "People spirited up to Mischief, we were obliged to putt a late Act "of Parliament in Force amongst us; What Misrepresentations have "been formed-what false Notions propogated-& what Acts & "Methods have been used to impose on the Inhabitants, & in some (6 measure by whom, it cannot be supposed that I am ignorant. But "I must hereupon repeat what I have divers times had Occasion to << say, that no Man in the Province is more truly and sincerely a "Friend to this Currency than I am, nor is there one person in my "Council but who has ever appeared to me, & I am well assured, not"withstanding the unsufferable Abuses with which they have been "loaded, truly is a very hearty friend to it, & crave nothing more "than that we may always have it on such a footing as may render "it really useful to us, by answering the true Ends of a Currency, "that is, that it may ever be Kept up to the Value, or very near it, "for which it was first struck, for in Proportion as it declines from "this, 'tis manifest that it becomes a public Loss.

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"I shall also further observe that notwithstanding all the turbu"lent Noise that has been made, it is more owing, I have now Cause "to believe, to the Endeavours of those who have unjustly been "represented as Enemies to the Currency than to its pretended "Friends, that we have this Bill at all. And I heartily wish that no Means may be used by any of those who were loudest in their "Clamours for it, to render the Currency fruitless to us by soliciting a Repeal: For it is but too manifest from what we have seen of "late, that the Confusion of this Government is what a certain Party "amongst us have Principally at Heart. As for my part, I assure you that all my interest at home with my best Endeavours, shall "be applied towards obtaining the Royal Sanction to it, or at least "in preventing its Repeal; with which firm Resolution I now pass

"this Bill for Emitting Thirty thousand pounds in Bills of Credit "into a Law of this Province, desiring at the same time, that all due "Care be taken to gett them well & carefully printed on good Paper, " & that they may be signed in a Readiness to be issued at the time "appointed.

"I must further desire you Gentlemen, upon your retiring to your "respective Habitations, that you would take proper Methods (for I แ am sure it is every good Man's Duty) to possess the Minds of the "People with just Notions of Government, to animate them to Peace, 66 Industry, & all those Virtues that make truly for their own greatest "and best Interest. And at your next meeting I hope you will "L proceed to the Consideration of what may be further necessary to "reduce us to some Degree of that Tranquility which, with a due 66 sense of God's Favour to us, & rational Endeavours to make the "best use of them, we might happily enjoy.

Then the House withdrew, & adjourned till the 11th of Angust

next.

At a Council held at Philadia., May 26th, 1729.

PRESENT:

The Honble PATRICK GORDON, Esqr., Lieut. Governour.

The Governour told the Indians that he was very glad to see them, and that according to their Desire he had called his Council together to hear what they had to say.

CIVILITY then said that none of the Shawanese are now come, because unhappily, having spent all their Provisions on Rum, they are oblig'd to stay at home to provide Subsistence for their Families by hunting, but that they have contributed equally in the Presents now to be made, and desired those now present to speak in their Name

Then directing his discourse to the Governr. he said:

That the Governour did not come to see them at Conestogoe the first year after his Arrival, being hindred by Sickness & Business, but that last year he came to see them, for which they were very glad, & then spoke to them particularly about the Death of those Indian People that were then killed. That the Governour then expressed his & all the English People's Sorrow for their Death, & they were afflicted with them, tho' those that were killed were not of their People, but that they are now come to desire the Governr may grieve no more, but that the Memory of the whole may be entirely buried in the Ground & never be remembered.

That the Governour, the English & Indians, are all as one People & one Body, that if they had received any thing on their Stomachs that was harsh & unpleasant, they must bring it all up, purge it out and cleanse their Hearts, that they all may be pure & clean & remain all the same People & Body as before.

That if there has been any Uneasiness between us, or any Cause of Grief, it must be all done away; they are now come for that Purpose; they will sweep the House clean & make the floors all white so that there shall not the least Spot of Blackness remain.

That what the Governour said to them at Conestogoe pleased them much it was all right & good: they had never any such speech made to them since William Penn was here: And as the Governour then spoke they desire it may so continue, that they may be ever the same; and that the Candle of Love should always burn, and that there should never any Uneasiness subsist between us.

The Conestogoe, Delaware, Shawanese & Ganawese Indians all agree together in what he has said, & resolve forever to continue in the same Love & Friendship with the English as one People, & as they all joyned together in what was said last Spring at Conestogoe, they are now come hither to repeat the same.

-As they are all one People with the Christians, so their Children must be the same as the Children of the same Parents, for they are all come from the same Father & Mother.

That as the Governr desired last year at Conestogoe, that the Roads between Philadia, Conestogoe & the five Nations should be clear & open and free from all Grubs & Thorns, & every thing that can give any Offence, they find it is truly so, and are resolved that it shall so remain while they live.

That last year the Governour told them that the English & Indians must help each other as Brethren whenever they meet, that they desire it may be always so; that the English may help them in their Wants & the Indians shall always assist the English when they meet them in the woods; they will treat them with clean Food, & in pure vessels, they will eat together out of one clean & white Dish without any Spot, as a MARK of the Cleanness of their Hearts.

That not only the Indians that were at Conestoge last year, but likewise those of the whole Country, were pleased with what then passed, and that the Presents then delivered to them were devided into the smallest parts, that it might reach all the Indians every where & be read as a Letter.

Then TAWENNA stood up & said:

He never spoke since William Penn was here till last Spring, & now speaks the same again to the Governour. That William Penn in his house in this town, told them they must be one Body & he now says the same; they are not to be as People bound together to each other, tho' the Bonds were ever so strong, tho' they were of Iron, for even in that case the one may suffer & the other escape, but they & we, as William Penn said, must be as the same Body, half the one & half the other, that cannot be divided, that each may both, have Joy & Pain alike, as the same Body without any Division.

William Penn said that as both Nations were to be the same Body, so if by any stroke that Body were to be divided down the middle into two parts so that they fell assunder, This should be looked upon as the Act of Providence, which neither could help or be blamed for.

William Penn further said, that if all the People around us should differ one with another, yet we must not differ but continue the same in Love & Peace; that the Indians ought not hastily to goe out fo War but rather should study Peace, & that if they were attacked he & his People would be ready to defend them, for that we are all as one People. William Penn told the Indians that he loved them all; their Men, Women & Children, and that he held Councils with them to perpetuate the Remembrance of his Affection towards them, that the Friendship he had established with them was to last for many Generations; that their old Men die & others come in their Room, who likewise die, but that the Love & Friendship between the English & Indians ought to remain forever.

Tawenna said, he hopes the Governour will continue in the same strong Friendship & Love with all the Indians, for their Hearts are sincere & true, & they all desire that no unhappy Accident may ever interrupt that Peace which now subsists between the English and them, and that all those things which Governour Penn Spoke to them may ever be remembred & imprinted on our & their hearts, so as to be observed inviolably.

That he is well pleased with all that has passed between us & them, but is apprehensive some Mischief may happen through the great Quantities of Rum which are daily carried amongst the Indians, who being greedy of that Liquor are soon debauched by it, & may then easily be stirred up to some unhappy or ill Action.

That William Penn told them he would not suffer any large Quantity of that Liquor to be brought among them, & that they might stave the Casks & spill it if they found any in the Woods, But that now several Hogsheads of Rum are brought to Conestogoe, & to several other places in their Road & near to them, by which the Indians are tempted not only to sell their Peltry but likewise their Cloathing for that Liquor, & are much impoverished thereby.

That William Penn often told them, If any Cristian committ any foolish or ill Action amongst them, they should seize him without doing him any Violence, & bring such person to him, that the matter