MINUTES

OF THE

SUPREME EXECUTIVE COUNCIL

OF

PENNSYLVANIA,

FROM ITS ORGANIZATION TO THE TERMINATION
OF THE REVOLUTION.

PUBLISHED BY THE STATE.

MICHIGA

VOL. XV.

CONTAINING THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE SUPREME EXECUTIVE
COUNCIL FROM JULY 4TH, 1786, TO FEBRUARY 6TH, 1789,

BOTH DAYS INCLUSIVE.

HARRISBURG:

PRINTED BY THEO. FENN & CO.
1853.

CONTENTS.

A.

ACT for the sale of lots in Philadelphia, 4.

for the relief of soldiers, 71.

for the distribution of donation lands in the Commonwealth, 74.

touching vesting the estate of the Penns to the Common-

wealth, 202.

for appointing Wardens for the port at Philadelphia, 393.

Agents of Confiscated Estates, to postpone certain sales, 9.

Allen Andrew, an attainted traitor, 4, 43.

Adventure Brigantine, sustained damages at sea, touching the

same, 517.

Alleghany town, opposite Pittsburg, draft of, &c., 610, 612, 623,

624.

Arch, triumphal, one erected in Philadelphia, 574.

Arms, public, expences paid for repairing, 521.

Arnold Benedict, an attainted traitor, touching certain claims, 640.

B.

BALLIET STEPHEN, letter from, 472.

Barrack lots in Philadelphia, sold, 18, 21, 77.
Bartram Alexander, an attainted traitor, 143, 185.

Base coin uttered, punished by hanging, 475, 476.

Bank of the United States, regulations touching the same, 192.

Beaver river, donation lands on, 16.

Biddle Charles, letters from, 84, 170.

Blank certificates of the re-funded debt printed, 440.

Berks county militia imprisoned, 415.

Board of Council, certain rules and regulations adopted, 591.

Boundary lines of Pennsylvania, provisions made for, 33, 39, 106.

northern line, 38, 198, 212, 220, 340, 356.

western line, 39, 106, 108.

Brown Lazarus, letters from, 599.

Burnt Cabins, road to, 121, 322, 486, 519.

Butler Zebulon, letters from, 443, 525.

C.

CANAL, or water communication, to connect Presque Isle with

Philadelphia, 631.

Cape Henlopen, a large pole hoisted at, 566.

Caswell, Governor of North Carolina, letter from, 159.

Comptroller General's reports, 1, 5, 27, 37, 64, 65, 80, 107, 122,

571, 600.

Collector of Customs, touching, 440.

of Excise, for Lancaster county, 81.

Connawaw, upon the Susquehanna river, lands at unappropriated,
631.

Commercial Convention, relative thereto, 86.

Connecticut claims, proceedings touching the same, 19, 79, 237,

356.

Caldwell & Brady, letter from, 116.

Craig James, Jr., letter from, 562.

D.

DAUPHIN COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, their remissness of duty, 14.,

Day Luke, a noted rebel, 176.

Delaware, may be made navigable as far as the northern boundary

of Pennsylvania, 659.

Delaney Sharp, letter from, 597.

Dickinson College, in Carlisle, touching, 298.

John, letter from, 107.

Distances from Conoe Place to Kittanning town, 91.

Doan Abraham & Levi, declared outlaws, 497, 500, 515, 535, 514.
Donation lands, distributed by lottery, 518, 580.

Dryer Jacob, trial and conviction and pardoned, 631.

F.

ELECTIONS of Justices of the Peace, 520.

Ellicott Andrew, an attainted traitor, 230.

Erie Lake, lands on, touching, 392, 472, 524, 528, 532, 553, 555,
561, 650, 659.

Escheated estate of Doctor Daniel Weiss, 482.

Evans Thomas, an attainted traitor, 14.

Eckert Valentine, letter from, 295.

F.

FALCONER NATHANIEL, letter from, 337.

Fort Harmar, in Ohio, letter from by General St. Clair, 518.
Franklin Benjamin, elected President of Council, 110.

John, one of a banditti at Tioga, 291.

arrested and imprisoned in Philadelphia, 385, 537,
640.

& Jenkins, agents for settlers at Wyoming, 67.

Fourth of July celebrated, 46.

Frontiers to be protected, 323.

Francis Tench, letter from, 153.

Finly James, of Westmoreland, a letter from, 472.

G.

GERMAN PASSENGERS, Register of appointed, 322.

Gibson John, letter from, 605.

Gordon Thomas, attainted of high treason, 177, 338.

Graffenriedt de Techanor, claims grants. of land on Susquehanna

and Schuylkill, 529.

Gun powder stored in Philadelphia, 529.