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few hours in time to prevent the execution of their- 

 design. 



" Having/' says Keith, "the Surveyor General of this 

 province with me in company, after a httle consideration, 

 I ordered him to locate and survey some part of the right 

 I possessed, viz : only five hundred acres upon that spot 

 on the other side of Susquehanna, which was likely to 

 prove a bone of contention, and breed so much mischief, 

 and he did so accordingly, upon the 4th and 5th of April ; 

 after which I returned to Conestoga to discourse with tli* 

 Indians upon what happened ; but in my way thither, I 

 was very much surprised with a certain accomit that the 

 young men of Conestoga had made a famous war dance 

 the night before, and that they Avere all going to war 

 immediately, hereupon, I appointed a council to be held 

 with the Indians next morning in Civility's cabin." 



The particulars of tliis meeting were never recorded. 

 But before long the Indians became considerably 

 alarmed, at the proposed encroachments of the Mary- 

 landers; Governor Keith, shortly afterwards, held a 

 council with the Indians at Conestoga, June 15, 1722, to 

 procure from them a grant to survey a tract of land, 

 known by the name of ^Springett Manor,^^ in York 

 county. 



Closely connected with the Maryland intrusions as to 

 time, an accoimt of v/hich has been presented, the fears 

 of the people of the province were again awakened by 

 a quarrel between two brothers, named Cartledge, and 

 an Indian, named Saanteenee, near Conestoga, in which 

 the latter was killed, with many circumstances of 

 cruelty. 



The known principles of revenge, professed by the 

 Indians, gave reason to apprehend severe retaliation. — ^^- 



