Minutes of the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania

Artillery company rules & regulations for recommended, 391, 392,

393, 394.

Assembly, messages from to Governor Penn, 5, 6, 28, 32, 70, 74,

Associators for the city & suburbs of the city of Philadelphia, 630.
- names of to be returned to the Council of Safety, 687.

BATTALION of Foot, to be raised in Pennsylvania, 756.

Barrack master, instructions to from the Committee of Safety, 568.

Bedford county, people of petition, setting forth their dangerous

situation, 68, 74.

Berks county, letter from laid before the board of the Council of

Safety, 655. .

Bermuda Island, the people of in great distress, Congress recom-

mends to the several Colonies to send them relief, 412,413, 414.
Billington, N. J. fortifications erected at, 730.
Bills, Loan office, &c., 27; for emitting £200,000 bills of Credit, 28;
'touching roads in the Province, 39; to emit £150,000 76; for
preserving the navigation of Shearman's Creek, 71; to prevent

frauds & abuses in leather, 76; to raise county rates, 81, 82.

Board of business established, &c., 280.

Boats, Provincial ones, rules & regulations to be observed on by of-

ficers & crew, 322, 323, 324, 325, 326, 327; military stores al-

lowed them, 363; General instructions to commanders of, 368,

369, 370, 617; men employed, 465; ammunition furnished them,

566.

Boston Post, Parliamentary act respect'g, noticed, 180.
Boundary line between Pennsylvania & Virginia, touching, 150,

156, 158, 161, 165, 167, 174, 176, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185,
186, 187, 188, 191, 206.

between Pennsylvania & Maryland, 220, 221, 225.

Carlisle, prisoners at allowed to go to Lancaster, 688.

of Safety, 416, 447,634, 742.

Carahan's deposition, 235.
Canon taken at Providence, R. I., lent to defend the city of

Philadelpbia, 564, 565.

Carolina prisoners in jail in Philadelphia, 580, 581..
Committee of Safety, 280, 374; president of appointed, 283;

memorials of to the Assembly, 348, 579, 582.
— to Congress, 575, 576, 577.
- different committees appointed, 543, 514.

Clothing Agent appointed, 538.

Companies to be formed, recommended, 292, 293, 316; rules re-

commended to them, 316, 318, 319.

Conference of Committees of Safety, 631.

Conestogo Indians, massacre of alluded to incidentally, 125, 126,

257.

Conestogo Creek, fishing in regulated, 144, 149.

Connecticut claimants, touching, 3, 4, 50, 86, 87, 111, 118, 119,

120, 123, 125, 129, 130, 133, 138, 143, 151, 153, 154, 155,

163, 177, 178, 179.

Conference with the Connecticut Commissioners, 125, 126, 128.

Connelly, Dr., his movements in Western Pennsylvania, 140, 157,

167, 197, 227, 228, 231, 235, 533.

Counterfeiters and forgers, act relative to them, 89, 99.

Conscience, no violence intended by measures recommended by

Committee of Safety, 293.

Conspirators against the State, 661, 663, 666, 667, 669, 694.

Council of Safety, minutes of, 279.

Court-bouses, money granted to erect several, 197. .

DARTMOUTH, Earl of, letters from to Gov. Penn, 102, 220, 216,

249.
Declaration of Independence, to be liberally distributed, 634.
Defence of the River Delaware, 285, 286, 287, 289, 290, 334, 363,

504.
Delaware Indians, message to from Gov. John Penn, 204.
Deposition of Henry Reed, 168.
Deserters, not to be concealed by any one knowing them as, unless

fined, 618, 619.
Disturbances in Western Pennsylvania, 141, 157, 161, 166, 167,

169, 234, 235, 533.
Dixon & Mason's line, 150, 182, 183, 187.
Drunkenness punished in the army, 309.
Dunmore, Lord, Governor of Virginia, letter from to Go7. Peaa,

157; to Tilguman, 183, 188.

ENLISTMENT of Soldiers, form of, 468.

Expenses, incidental for purposes of the Government, 17, 12, 53,

266.

FIELD OFFICERS, recommended, nominated, & appointed, 412, 443,

444, 446.
Fire arms, not to be carried out of Pennsylvania without permission,

498.
Fire Sloop, manned for service, 585; allowance to the officers &

crew, 585, 586.
Fish, an act to prevent fraud in packing them, 144, 226.
Flints, 30,000 for the use of the army, 632.
Flying camp, 6,000 militia to be raised for that purpose, 611,

704.
Forgers and counterfeiters, act relative to them, 89.
Fort Island, barrack master at, instructions to, 568, 56; survey of

bar authorized, 575; ready to accommodate affairs, 587.

Fort Pitt, propriety of keeping small garrison at, 71.

Foulke, Judah, appointed keeper of the standard of weights in

Philadelphia, 111.

French, Christopher, Major of his Majesty's 22d Regiment ou pa-

role, 303, 306.

GAGE, GENERAL, letter from to Penn, 19.
German settlers at the Glades, their petition to have Keble ap-

pointed Justice of the Peace, 8.
German companies to be raised in Pennsylvania and Maryland, 621,

622; officers appointed to command them, 643, 679, 685, 757.
Grievances of the citizens of Lancaster and Cumberland Counties,

touching payment for carriages in His Majesty's service, 17, 19.

Gunlocks, provincial manufactory of, 506.

Guns, to be completed, 290; to be made of substantial materials,

293; to be provided for service, 298; second handed ones pur.

chased, 418.

HAMILTON, ROBERT, charged with murdering Tracy, 7.

Hessians embarked from Staten Island, 753.

Hurricane, violent one, in the Island of Antigua, 57, 58, 60.

Hostilities, apprehended from the Indians, 192.

INCIDENTAL expenses for the purposes of government, 177, 172.

Indians, general war apprehended from them, 192.

- murdered, 196, 199.

- Dames of nations or tribes incidentally mentioned, occurring

repeatedly: Six Nations, 177, 192; Shawanese, 192; Dela-

wares, 194; Cabuga, 255.

Increase of the army, 467.

Intruders upon Indian lands on the north side of the West Branch

of the Susquehanna river, 94, 95.

Instructions to Tilghman & Allen, touching the disputed boundary

line between Pennsylvania and Virginia, 175.

from the Committee of Safety to Henry Fisher, 337, 338;

to the Barrack Master, 568.

Inspection Committee to assist in procuring rifles, &c., 688.

JOHNSTON, SIR WILLIAM, letter from to Governor Penn, 53, 192.
Jobpson Guy, letter from, 200.

LANCASTER, buildings regulated by a certain act of the Legisla-

ture, 148.

Lead, scarce, clock and window weights of lead fused into bullets,

558, 572, iron weights ordered to be cast & exchanged for leaden

ones, 561, 637, 649.

Letters, from Nicholas Sutherland, 16; from General Gage, 19;

from William Johnson, 21; from Randolph Payne, 57; frona
Robert Moodie, 86; from William Plunket, 86; from Arthur
St. Clair, 140, 145, 194, 202; from Lord Dunmore, 149, 158,
176, 193; to Governor Trumbull, 152, 156; to Smith, 171,
to Crawford, 171; from the Earl of Dartmouth to Penn, 102;
from the Connecticut Commissioners, 121, 133, 138; from Dup-
more to Tilgbman, 183, 188, 191; from Aeneas Mackay, 141,
169; from Governor Trumbull of Connecticut to Governor
Hamilton, 9, 119; to Governor Penn, 151, 164; from William
Crawford, 167, from Doctor Connolly, 167; from Devereux
Smith, 170; from Richard Peters to H, Wilmon, 179; from
Allen & Tilghman to Lord Dunmore, Governor of Vir-
ginia, 183; from Guy Johnson, 200; from Governor Penn to
the Connecticut Commissioners, 123, 130; to Arthur St. Clair,
115, 194, 202; to Lord Dunmore, 149, 176, 193, to Smith and
others, 171 ; to Lord Dartmouth, 221, 236; to Eden, Governor
of Maryland, from Convention of New Jersey, 628.
- from the Committee of Inspection and Observation, 497.
Lieutenants, recommended, nominated and appointed, 448, 449,

457, 488.

Lodge, masonic, meeting in of the Committee of Safety, 298

Lock manufactory, to apply to repairing, 627, 641.

Lords Commissioners of Trade, &c., 103.

Lotteries, accounts of several to settle 41.

- to be restrained by law, 48.

MACKEY AENEAS, letters from, 141, 169.
Mason and Dixon's line mentioned, 150, 182, 183, 187.
Maxwell John, appointed paymaster, 356.
Memorials of the Committee of Safety to the Assembly of Penn-
sylvania, 318, 492, 579, 582.

to the Continental Congress, 576, 577, 601.

Menace to extort money, 44.

Messages from Governor Richard Penn to the Assembly, 16, 30,

34, 32, 34, 76, 84; from Governor Jobn Penn, 97, 88, 117,

146,196, 208, 214, 216, 224, 226, 233, 238, 243, 251, 260; to

the Indians, 203, 204, 205.

– from the Assembly to Governor Richard Penn, 5, 6, 28, 3,

35, 37, 70, 74, 82, 96; to Governor John Penn, 142, 215,

225, 238, 252.

Mills, good ones encouraged to be built, 109.

Minute men, selected, &c, 293.

Minutes of Indian Couferences held at Philadelphia, 10, 11, 12,