who then insisted upon revenge for the ill treatment he gave them, and accordingly took Parker Prisoner, and tyed him, and determined to Scalp him, but the rest of the whites who were in the Town rescued him. He immediately went of about two mile from from the Town, where some of his People lay, & got a Horse, & rid that night thirty Miles bare backed to the Logs Town. The Indians imagined that he was gone into his House, one of them layd wait for him at the Door with his Gun, at last one Brown, one of Mr. Parker's hands, came out with a white matchcoat round him, which the Indian took for Parker, (as he was in his shirt at the time they had him tyed,) & shot him down, this happened at Coscoske. Mr. Croghan sends Wm. Brown the Lad from Carolina, off directly by a waggon to be delivered according to your directions. Mr. Croghan gave him a shirt & a cap, which comes to 12s. 6d. Mr. Croghan & myself, set off the latter end of next week for Philada.

I am

Sir,

your most humb Servt, WILLIAM TRENT.

Indorsed-Mr. Trent's Lre, 20th 7ber, 1748. Read in Council, Tuesday, 1st Nov", 1748.

MEM'M OF WAMPUM FROM C. WEISER, 1748.

Memorandum of the Wampum I left in the Secretary's office, Ocber the 21st, 1748.

Were given by the Indians on account of Carolina affair. See my Journal.

A large Blake Belt,

A String Blake & White,

Dito, Blacke & White,

Were given by the Indians to the President & Council of

grains.

2000

256

600

Pennsylvania. See the Journal.

A String of White of

A Belt of White & few Blake,

A String of White,

A String White,

A nother String of White Wampum,

150

900

- 300

185

212

I can give an account of ten tousand grains of white & Blacke Wumpum, I used at the treaty on Ohio. Some of the Belt the Indians will return or ans" with some of their. Some Hundreds I Brought Back, not includ in the above, but will return them by first opportunity to Secretary.

CONRAD WEISER, Interpreter. Indorsed-Conrad Weiser's Acco' of Wampum, left in the Secretarys Office, October 21st, 1748.

DEPOSITION OF S. WHITE AND OTHERS, 1748.

Cecil Coty, ss.

The deposition of Samuel White, aged Fifty-three, Deposeth on Oath, & sayeth that he knows of no improvement made on the Land, where Mary McFadin now lives, before she Settled there as Tenant to Henry Baker, that there was a small appearance of a Settlement, when this Deponent settled on his own Land, wch was made on his, this Deponent's Land, near to the Land Mary McFadin now lives on, & that he heard that it was a Dutchman that settled there, and further sayeth not.

Taken before me the 19th day of Novemb. 1748.

NATHAN BAKER.

Hannah White, aged about Thirty-nine, being one of the People, calleth Quakers, aflirmeth & sayeth, that She Remembereth that the severall Articles sworn to above are just & true.

The Deposition of Jonathan Hartshorn, aged about Thirty years, Deposeth on oath, and sayeth that he hath liv'd at & near the Settlement of Samuel White, About Twenty two years, & remembers that Thomas Hampton sold the place where Sam' White now lives, that the said Hampton when he sold the above Settlemt to this Deponent's Father, made a reserve of a small Improvement out of the said Settlemt, & near joyning to the Land, the above Mary McFadin now lives on, wch Improvement is now in the Possession of Samuel White, & had been there before the said McFadin settled there. The above depositions taken befour me, one of his Lordships Justice, this 19th day of November, 1748.

NATHAN BAKER.*

Indorsed.-Sam' White & Hanah White.

Sir,

Gov. GoоCH TO PRESIDENT PALMER, 1748.

This is to acknowledge the receipt of your Letter, dated Novber 8th, with the Treaty made at Lancaster last summer, which I think was managed with great Prudence.

I am very glad we have purchased the amity of that distant nation of Indian, being sensible of what consequence their adherence to our Interest may be in Case of any future rupture. I have also

* See Col. Rec. Vol. V. p. 385.

received from Cap" Ballet, a Copy of Mr. Weiser's Journal, and we are perfectly satisfied with his Conduct, and your disposal of our Present. I am with great esteem,

Your obedt humb Servant,

Richard Peters as I live near on ye Borders of Maryland, I think it my Duty when any thing is likely to Endanger the peace of ye Government, or Interfere with the Royal order, to Give Notice thereof, the present Case that Engages me to Trouble thee wth these lines is this, Joseph England obtaind a warrant of Resurvey last year, which I send Inclosed wth the Reasons, why I could not Execute it, he is Dead about three weeks since, & since his Decease, there appears an Intention to Deprive his Heirs of the land; a Marylander has been with the agent, who gives Leases for Lands in Talbot's Mannor, & has obtain'd (as I am inform'd) a promise for one on this Land, and now this being land Held under Pennsyla, before yo year 24, & pay'd Lot & Scott to ye Government Ever Since, if such things are practised on the Border, inost, if not all the Inhabitants of West Nottingham, may soon be in ye same Circumstance, for they streatch the Bounds of that man', so as to Include all that township. Sam" England, heir to Joseph, deceased, has (in Justice) an undoubted Right to a preference of purchase, (from either side) at least, should therefore be glad to have him some How assisted or secured. In haste I conclude, thy ffrd,

E. Notting, 12th of 11br, 1748-9.

Indorsed-12th Janry, 1748.

-JNO. CHURCHMAN.*

Letter to the Secretary about

Joseph England's Tract of 500 in Nottingham.

* See Col. Rec. Vol. V. p. 382-3, and pp. 21-2 of this Vol.

Sir:

Gov. SHIRLEY TO GOV. HAMILTON, 1749.*

Boston, February 20th, 1748-9.

I have lately receiv'd Intelligence (which your Honour will find contain'd in the enclos'd Paper,) of the Preparations making by the French of Canada, for the Settlement of the Lands near Crown Point; and I make no Question of the truth of it, it being a thing I always expected would be attempted by them immediately upon a Peace, and I look upon the affair to be of such Consequence, as to require the utmost Efforts of the English Governments in every proper way to prevent it; and, (besides it being a matter of general Concern to all his Majesty Colonies on the Continent of America, who may in Process of time be equally indangered by the spreading & Growth of the Freuch upon our Borders,) as your Colony, as well as ours, will be more immediately affected herewith, I judg'd it necessary to communicate this Intelligence to you, and to desire that you would maturely consider this matter, and let me have your Opinion what may be proper to be done by the English Governmts (in Case the French should make these Incroachments upon his Majesty's Territories,) for preventing them before it be too

late.

I am, with very great Regard,

Sir,

Your Honour's most

obed Humble Servant,

W. SHIRLEY.

The honble James Hamilton, Esq".

Indorsed-Governor Shirley's Letter to Governor Hamilton,

dated 20th Febry, 1748.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM ISRAEL WILLIAMS, ESQ., TO GOVERNOUR SHIRLEY.

Sir:

Hatfield, Feby 13th, 1748.

The 11th Instant, Col. Willard sent a Frenchman to me, who, the Wednesday before came to Fort Dummer, he calls his name Jean Orange, and gives this account of himself, that seven days before his arrival at Fort Dummer, he came from Crown Point, where he had been for some time a soldier, and that he deserted the service, and came to New England with hopes to get home to France, from whence he came about six years ago. Its possible he may give the

Gov. Hamilton entered in Nov. 1748. Sec Col. Rec. Vol. V. p. 362.

true reason of his running away; he is very desirous of getting to Boston, and having an opportunity to send him along without much. charge to the Government; I have ordered him to your Excellency to be disposed of as you think proper; he says there is about an hundred Soldiers now at Crown Point, no Indians out, and that both French and Indians are in full Expectation of an Established peace. Also, that the French are preparing, and intend very soon to come & settle the Lands near Crown Point, it seems they little fear the success of Mr. Bollans memorial, (if they have ever heard of it) or the Attempts made to procure the Demolition of that Fort, and their Removal from thence, our people that have been there one and all, represent the Lands East and South of Crown Point for a great extent, exceeding rich, valuable and suitable for Settle

ments.

Examined,

J. J. WILLARD, Secry.

Indorsed-Extract of a Letter from one at Hatfield to Governor Shirley, dated 13th Febry, 1748.

Philada ss.

DEPOSITION OF SAMUEL ENGLAND, 1749.

This Twenty ninth day of April, 1740, before me Charles Willing, Esq, personally appeared Samuel England, of East Nottingham, in Chester County, & Province of Pennsylvania, Yeoman, and being of the People called Quakers, did on his Solemn Affirmation, say, declare, and averr, as follows, viz: that on or about the Last Day of March, 1748, this Affirmant was present, when William Hay, then Sub Sheriff for the County of Chester in the said Province, serv'd a Writ issuing out of the Prothonotary's Office at Chester, upon Robert Mitchel, at the Suit of this Affirmant's Father, Joseph England, being as this Deponent understood, and believes an Action brought by the said Joseph England against the said Robert Mitchel, for cutting down and destroying Timber, and other Trespasses committed by him upon part of a Plantation & Tract of Land, which the said Joseph England purchas'd, & held under a Pennsylvania Right for upwards of Twenty five years last past, & during that time has always been reputed and deemed to lye in the said Province of Pennsylvania, (as this Affirmant always understood and believes,) & for which Plantation the said Joseph England, has all along, during that time paid Taxes, and serv'd Offices in Chester County aforesaid. That after the said Writ was so serv'd by the said William Hay upon the said Robert Mitchel, they with the said Joseph England went to a Publick House in Nottingham afore