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Minutes of the Provincial Council
of Pennsylvania
(August 24, 1751)
In: Minutes of the Provincial
Council of
Pennsylvania, Colonial Records,
Vol. V., pp. 548-550.
ernor as Persons well qualified for that Office, and two Separate Commissions of the Peace were ordered to be made for them accordingly.
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At a Council held at Philadelphia, Saturday the 24th of August, 1751.
PRESENT:
The Honourable JAMES HAMILTON, Esquire, Lieutenant Governor.
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Thomas Lawrence, |
Joseph Turner, |
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Robert Strettell,, |
Richard Peters, |
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William Logan, |
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The Minutes of the preceding Council were read and approved.
The following Letter from Governor Clinton, with Coll. Johnson's Letter to him enclosed, were laid before the Assembly, read in Council, and order'd to be enter'd:
A Letter from Governor Clinton to Governor Hamilton.
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FLAT BUSH, on Long Island, 13th August, 1751 |
Sr.:
Being at present with my Family out in the Country for the Benefit of the Air, After a very severe Fit of the Gout, and receiving the enclosed Account yesterday evening, I sent this to Town to be forwarded by the very first opportunity, thinking it a Matter of Importance to your Province, which I hope will come time enough for your Honour to make use of proper Precautions.
You may depend on the earliest Communication of what further News I may receive relating to the Schemes of the French. I am with the greatest Truth,
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Your Honour's most obedient and very humble Servant, |
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G. CLINTON. |
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A Letter to Governor Clinton from Coll. Johnson.
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MOUNT JOHNSON, July 27th, 1751. |
May it please your Excellency:
I enclose an account of what the French are about now at Cadaraghgin, given to Capt. Lindesay by Attrawaney, Cajuga Sachim, who begg'd of him to let me know it as soon as possible. I thought proper also to let your Excellency know that there has a Body of French to the number of twelve hundred, and two hundred Orondakees, &c., passed by Oswego about a fortnight ago, with a design to cut off (as I understand) some of the Nations of Indians (page 549) to the Westward who are strongly attached to the British Interest; also to stop the Philadelphians building at or near Ohio or any where else thereabout. Having this Account confirmed by a French Deserter now at my House who saw this Body of Men set off from Cadaraghqui, I immediately (in your Excellency's Name) took upon me to send an Express through all the Nations (with a large Belt of Wampum), acquainting them of the French's March that way, and desiring they might be on their Guard, which has been so kindly taken by the Five Nations, that it is not to be expressed. I am with all due Respect imaginable,
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Your Excellency's most obedient humble Servant, |
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Atterwaney's Account sent to
Coll. Johnson of the French building
a Ship at Cadaraghqui, sent him from Lt. Lindesay, July, 1751.
This 10th Day July Atterwaney came here from the Messesagues, where he had been negotiating an Alliance with said Nation. He told all their old Sachims were dead and young ones put in their Places, who confirmed their old Alliance and promised to keep it firm and Strong, altho' they were sollicited by the French not to make an agreement with the Five Nations.
He told he was at Cadaraghqui, where they were building a large Ship which was to have three Masts, and that some there told him when fitted was designed to come and take this Place. That he saw there six Cannon designed for said Purpose three Yards long with a wide Bore. He brought with him eight Messesagas, young Fighters, who were to go out with him against the Flatheads. I have done what I can to stop them, but yet cannot tell if I have prevailed or not.
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OSWEGO, July 19th, 1751. |
As I did not know of this Battoes going off till just now, have but just time to acquaint you that there passed by here a few days ago some canoes of French Traders who say there was an army gone up the other side the Lake, with which was two hundred of the Onondack Indians under the Command of Monsieur Belletre and the Chevalier Longville, and that their Design was against a village of the Twightwees where the English are building a Trading House of Stone, and that they were to give the English warning to move off in a peaceable manner, which if they refused they were to act with Force; And that they intend to build a Fort there and garrison it with three hundred men. The Governor's Son of Montreal is hourly expected to pass by here with fourteen Canoes of Soldiers, which are then designed to be stationed at the above Place.
This is the Village where George Croghan generally trades, all the Indians of which are firmly attached to the English, for which reason the French call them Rebels, and are going to bring them in Subjection. Two of the chiefs are to have no Mercy; the others, if they submit, are to be pardoned.
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Two Members of Assembly waited upon the Governor and acquainted him that the House having read and considered the Letters he was pleased to lay before them concerning Indian Affairs, and thank'd him for the early communication of such Intelligence, and requested the Governor's Care to do what may be proper in Consequence thereof. And further, that the House were inclined to adjourn this Day to the thirtieth of September, to whom the Governor was pleased to say he had no Objection to the proposed Time of Adjournment.
The House having agreed to the Amendments of the Bill Entituled "A Supplement to the Act entituled 'An Act for imposing a Duty on Persons convicted of Heinous Crimes, and to prevent poor and impotent Persons being imported into this Province,'" signified the same in a Message by two of their Members to the Governor; and a Member of Council having compared the Engrossed Bill with the amended one, the Speaker at the head of the House presented it to the Governor, who enacted it into a Law, and sign'd a Warrant to affix the Great Seal thereto. After which the Speaker delivered to the Governor an Order on the Provincial Treasurer for Four Hundred Pounds.
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At a Council held at Philadelphia, Thursday the 3d of October, 1751.
PRESENT:
The Honourable JAMES HAMILTON, Esqr., Lieutenant Governor.
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Thomas Lawrence, |
William Till, |
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Mayor of the City, Robert Strettell, |
Joseph Turner, |
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William Logan, |
Richard Peters, |
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The Minutes of the preceding Council were read and approved.
The Returns of Sheriffs and Coroners for the several Counties were read, and the following Persons were appointed and Commissions accordingly executed:
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Sheriff. |
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Coroner. |
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Isaac Griffitts, |
Philadelphia County, |
Thomas James, |
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Joseph Hart, |
Bucks County, |
William Smith, |
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John Owen, |
Chester County, |
Joshua Thomson, |
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