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recently erected workhouse, a strong building, as the place 

 of greatest safety." 



When the news of this unkind treatment of the Indians 

 by the Paxtonians reached Philadelphia, the Governor 

 issued the following proclamation : 



Whereas, I have received information, that on Wed- 

 nesday the 14th of this month, a number of people well 

 armed and mounted on horseback, unlawfully assembled 

 together, and went to the Indiantown in the Conestoga 

 manor, in Lancaster county, and without the least reason 

 of provocation, in cold blood, barbarously killed six of the 

 Indians settled there, and burnt and destroyed all their 

 houses and effects ; and whereas so cruel and inhuman 

 an act, commuted in the heart of this province on the said 

 Indians, who have lived peaceably and inoffensively 

 among us during all our late troubles, and for many years 

 before, and were justly considered as under the protection 

 of this government and its laws, calls loudly for the vigor- 

 ous exertion of the civil authority, to detect the offenders 

 and bring them to condign punishment ; I have, therefore, 

 by and with the advice and consent of the council, thought 

 fit to issue this proclamation, and do hereby strictly charge 

 and enjoin all judges, justices, sheriffs, constables, officers, 

 civil and military, aiid all other his Majesty's liege subjects 

 within this province, to make diligent search and inquiry 

 after the authors and perpetrators of the said crime, their 

 abettors and accomplices, and use all possible means to 

 apprehend and to secure them in some of the public jails 

 of this province, that they may be brought to their trials, 

 and be proceeded against according to law. 



And whereas a number of other Indians, who lately 

 lived on or near the frontiers of this province, being 

 willing and desirous to preserve and continue tlie ancient 

 friendship which heretofore subsisted between them and 



