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to us here, that orders should be sent from the Crown, to apprehend and 

 bring to justice those persons who have cut off tliat nest of enemies that 

 lived near Lancaster. They never were subjects to his Majesty; were a 

 free, independent state, retaining all the powers of a free state ; sat in all 

 our Treaties with the Indians, as one of the tribes belonging to the Six 

 Nations, in alliance with us ; they entertained the French and Indian 

 spies — gave intelligence to tliem of tlie defenceless state of our Province 



— furnished them with Gazette every week, or fortnight — gave tliera 

 intelligence of all the dispositions of the Province army against them — 

 were frequently with the French and Indians at their forts and towns — 

 supplied them with warlike stores — joined with the strange Indians in 

 their war-dances, and in the parties tliat made incursions on our Frontiers 



— were ready to take up the hatchet against the English openly, when 

 the French requested it — actually murdered and scalped some of the 

 Frontier inhabitants — insolently boasted of the murders they had com- 

 mitted, wlien they saw our blood was cooled, after the last Treaty at Lan- 

 caster — confessed that they had been at war with us, and would soon be 

 at war with us again (which accordingly happened), and even went so far 

 as to put one of their own warriors, Jegarie, to death, Lecause he refused 

 to go to war witli tliem against the English. All these things were known 

 through the Frontier inhabitants, and are since proved upon oath. This 

 occasioned them to be cut off by about forty or fifty persons, collected 

 from all the Frontier counties, though they are called by the name of the 

 little Township of Paxton. where, possibly, the smallest part of them 

 resided. And what surprises us more than all the accounts we have from 

 England, is, that our Assembly, in a petition they have drawn up, to the 

 King, for a change of Government, should represent this Province in a 

 state of uproar and riot, and when not a man in it lias once resisted a 

 single oflBcer of the Government, nor a single act of violence committed, 

 unles you call the Lancaster affair such, although it was no more than 

 going to war with that tribe, as they had done before with others, without 

 a formal proclamation of war by the Government. I have not time, as 

 you may guess by this scrawl, to write more at this time, but only that I 

 am yours, &c. 



John Ewing. 



3. Memorials of the Paxton Men. (Chap. XXV.) 



5. To the Honorable John Penn, Esq., Governor of the Province of 

 Pennsylvania, and of the Counties of New-Castle, Kent, and Sussex, upon 

 Delaware ; and to the Pepresentatives of the Freemen of the said 

 Province, in General Assembly met. 



We, Matthew Smith and James Gibson, in Behalf of ourselves and his 

 Majesty's faithful and loyal Subjects, the Inhabitants of the Frontier 

 Counties of Lancaster, York, Cumberland, Berks, and Northampton, 

 humbly beg Leave to remonstrate and lay before you the following 

 Grievances, which we submit to your Wisdom for Redress. 



