At a Council held at Philadelphia, Wednesday the Eleventh of October, 1752. PRESENT: Robert Strettell, William Logan, Esquires. The Minutes of the preceding Council were read and approved. The Governor being absent through Indisposition, the following Petition was read, presented by the Captain of a French Sloop called L'Entreprenant, bound, as he says, on a Voyage from Mississippi to Martinico: "To the Honourable JAMES HAMILTON, Esquire, Governor of the Province of Pennsylvania, "The Petition of Charles Bellamy, Master or Commander of the Sloop L'Entreprenant of Martinico, most humbly Sheweth: "That your Petitioner sometime since sailed from Mississippi on a Voyage intended for Martinico; That on his Passage he met with such violent Gales of Wind and Stormy weather that so wrecked and disabled the said Vessel that your Petitioner could not proceed on his intended Voyage, but was obliged to put into this Port of Philadelphia to refit; And, therefore, he petitions and supplicates your Honour to Grant him your Permission to refit the said Vessel for the Sea, and to purchase so much Provisions as may be neces sary for the Voyage; and to enable Your Petitioner to do the same to make sale of so much of his Cargo as will answer those Purposes. "And your Petitioner will pray, &c. "26th September, 1752." “CHARLES BELAMY. After which the Captain was examined, and it appearing to the Council that the Fact might be as was set forth in the Petition, they advised the Governor to grant the Prayer thereof, and to issue his Warrant as usual to some Mariners and Shiprights to examine the Vessel and report her condition, which the Governor accordingly did; and on their Report that the Vessel ought to be condemned as unfit to proceed to Sea, the Captain again petitioned the Governor for Leave to put his Cargo into a Store; whereupon the Governor sent for the Collector of his Majestie's Customs and committed the Vessel and Cargo into his Care that the King's Duties might be secured and the Vessel and Goods sold. At a Council held at Philadelphia, Monday the 16th October, 1752. PRESENT: The Honourable JAMES HAMILTON, Esquire, Lieutenant Governor. The Minutes of the preceding Council were read and approved. Eight Members of Assembly having waited on the Governor to inform him that they were met according to Charter and had chosen their Speaker, and having desired to know when they might present him for his approbation, he had appointed them to wait on him at this time in the Council Chamber, and they accordingly coming, Isaac Norris informed the Governor that he was unanimously elected Speaker, and being approved by the Governor, he there demanded the usual Privileges on behalf of the House and himself. Then was read the following Letter and Paper enclosed in it, sent by Express from Carlisle to the Governor: "May it Please Your Honour: "CARLISLE, Aug 30th, 1752. "Last night Thomas Burney who lately resided at the Twightwee's Town in Allegheny, came here and gives the following account of the unhappy Affair that was lately transacted there: On the twenty-first Day of June last, early in the Morning, two Frenchmen and about two hundred and forty Indians came to the Twightwee's Town, and in a Hostile Manner attacked the People there residing. In the Skirmish there was one White man and fourteen Indians killed, and five white men taken Prisoners. "The Party who came to the Twightwee's Town reported that they had received as a Commission two Belts of Wampum from the Governor of Canada to kill all such Indians as are in Amity with the English, and to take the Persons and Effects of all such English Traders as they could meet with, but not to kill any of them if they could avoid it, which Instructions were in some measure obeyed. "Mr. Burney is now here, and is willing to be qualified not only to this but to sundry other matters which he can discover concerning this Affair; if your Honour thinks it proper for him to come to Philadelphia to give you the Satisfaction of Examining more particularly in relation to it he will readily attend your. Honour upon that occasion, or make an affidavit of the particulars here. Such orders as your Honour pleases to send on this occasion shall certainly be obeyed by, "May it please your Honour, "Your IIonour's most obedient Servant, "ROBT CELLENDER. "P. S.-Inclosed your Honour has the Twightwee's Speech to Mr. Burney, with a Scalp and five Strings of Wampum, Bearer. Fifteen Days after the taking of the Town, Thomas Burney and Capt. Trent, with twenty Indians, went back to the Town, where they found all the Indians were fled, and on their Return met with Three of their Chiefs whom Capt. Trent delivered the Virginia Present to as he had then with him. These Chiefs informed them the Indians were gone eighty miles from thence, and there would reside till they heard further from their Brothers." A Message to the Governor from the Twightwees. "Brother Onas: "We, Your Brothers the Twightwees, have sent you by our Brother Thomas Burney a Scalp and Five Strings of Wampum, in Token of our late unhappy affair at the Twightwee's Town, and whereas our Brother has always been kind to us, hope he will now put us in a method how to act against the French, being more discouraged for the Loss of our Brother the Englishmen who was killed and the five who were taken Prisoners, than for the Loss of ourselves, and notwithstanding the two Belts of Wampum which were sent from the Governor of Canada as a Commission to destroy us, we still shall hold our Integrity with our Brothers, and are willing to die for them, and will never give up this Treatment although we saw our great Piankashaw King (which commonly was called old Britain by us) taken, killed, and eaten within a hundred Yards of the Fort before our Faces. We now look upon ourselves as lost People, fearing that our Brothers will leave us; but before we will be subject to the French, or call them our Fathers, we will perish here." The Governor informed the Council that he had sent by the Return of the Express a Letter, Commanding Thomas Burney to come to Philadelphia to be examined touching the contents of the Letter and Message, but that he had not hitherto paid any Regard to his orders. The Letter, Message, and Scalp were laid before the House of Assembly. The following Persons, namely, Thomas Edwards, Lynford Lardner, Emanuel Carpenter, James Galbraith, John Kyle, Thomas Cookson, James Whitehill, James Wright, Adam Simon Kuhn, James Smith, Samuel Anderson, Thomas Fosster, John Allison, William Jevon, Robert Thompson, Thomas Holliday, and Adam Read, Esquires, were appointed Justices for the County of Lancaster, and a Commission issued accordingly. MEMORANDUM. On the Seventeenth of October a Message was sent from the As sembly by Two Members to inform the Governor that they thought proper to defer the consideration of the Indian News till he should have an opportunity of examining Thomas Burney; And further, that the House enclined to adjourn to the fifteenth of next January, if he had no objection, and the Governor having none they adjourned to that Day. At a Council held at Philadelphia, Wednesday the 22d of November, 1752. PRESENT: The Honourable JAMES HAMILTON, Esquire, Lieutenant Governor. The Minutes of the preceding Council were read and approv❜d. The Justices of the Supream Court having held a Court of Oyer and Terminer at Lancaster, another at York, and another at Philadelphia, and three Persons having been capitally convicted, the Records of their several Convictions were read, and first the Record of Conviction against Hamilton Carsan, setting forth that he was indicted, arraigned, and convicted of feloniously and burglarily breaking and entering the Mansion House of Abram Graff, in Lancaster County, in the Night time and stealing and taking one Quarter of a Piece of Eight, one Eighth Part of a Piece of Eight, and Five shillings in Money, numbered of the Goods and Chattles of the said Abraham Graff, and sentenced to Death according to Law. And on the Representation of the chief Justice and Attorney General, the Governor Pardoned him by a Pardon, which passed the Greal Seal, and follows in these words: "George the Second, by the Grace of God, King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, and so forth. To all Persons to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting: Whereas, Hamilton Carsan, of the County of Lancaster, at a Court of Oyer and Terminer and General Gaol Delivery held at Lancaster for the Borough of Lancaster on the twenty-sixth, twenty-seventh, and twenty-eighth Days of October in the Twenty-Sixth year of our Reign, was convicted of feloniously and burglarily breaking and entering the Mansion House of Abraham Graff, in the said County of Lancaster, in the Night Time, and stealing and taking one Quarter of a Piece of Eight, one eighth Part of a Piece of Eight, and Five Shillings in Money, numbered of the Goods and Chattles of the said Abraham Graff, And Judgment by the said Court then and there was given and pronounced, that the said Hamilton Carson should be hanged by the Neck until he should be dead. Now Know Ye, that we being graciously pleased to extend our Royal Mercy and Compassion to the said Hamilton Carsan, Have remitted, released, and pardoned, And by these Presents do remit, release, and pardon unto the said Hamilton Carsan All and every the said Offence and Offences whereof he was convicted as aforesaid, And all the Pains and Penalties by means of the said Conviction upon him adjudged or imposed; And we do hereby Grant unto the said Hamilton Carsan our full and firm Peace, and that he shall stand right in all our Courts, if any against him would speak of the Premises. In Testimony whereof we have caused the Great Seal of our said Province to be hereunto affixed. Witness JAMES HAMILTON, Esquire, Governor of the said Province and Counties of Newcastle, Kent, and Sussex upon Delaware, at Philadelphia the Twenty-First Day of December, in the Year of our Lord one Thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty-Two, and in the Twenty-Sixth Year of our Reign. "[L. S.] JAMES HAMILTON." Then was read the Record of Conviction of Hugh Matthews, "who was sentenced to Death for feloniously making an assault upon John Carnahan, on a lawful Road and Highway in York County, with a Staff and a Pistol, and for stealing, taking, aud bearing away a Mare, a Bridle, and Saddle, of the Goods and Chattles of the said John Carnahan, from the Person of him, the said John Carnahan, to the Great Terror of the said John Carnahan;" And the Consideration thereof was postponed to another time, on a Representation made by the Secretary, Mr. Peters, who was present at his tryal, and desired that the Governor wou'd be pleased to inform himself by Mr. Francis of the Nature of Matthew's Crime and the Evidence with which it was supported. Then the Record of Conviction of Daniel Hurley for the Murder of James Clark was read, and the Chief Justice having represented the Fact to have been committed in a manner which called for no Favour, the following Warrant was made out and signed by the Governor for his Execution: "George the Second, by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, to Samuel Morris, Esquire, Sheriff of the City and County of Philadel phia, Greeting: "Whereas, At a Court of Oyer and Terminer and General Goal Delivery, held at Philadelphia for the County of Philadel |