360 HISTORY OF 



111 this manner lay the whole of them, men, women and 

 children, spread about the prison yard ; shot^-scalped — 

 hacked and cut to pieces." 



The bodies of slain were then buried in the borough 

 of Lancaster, where the bones of the Indians rested 

 undisturbed till the month of May, 1S33, when the 

 workmen employed in excavating for the rail road, dug 

 up the bones, '^^ 



The Governor issued a second proclamation, and offered 

 a reward for the discovery of the perpetrators, but 



without effect. 



Proclamation. 

 " Wherees, on the 22d Dec. last, I issued a proclama- 

 tion for the apprehending and bringing to justice a 

 number of persons, who, in violation of the public faith, 

 and in defiance of all law, had inhumanly killed 6 Indians, 

 who had lived in Conestoga manor, for the course of 

 many years, peaceably and inoffensively, under the pro- 

 tection of this government, on lands assigned them for 



»Pctcr Maurer informed us that ho saw the bodies of the 

 Indians buried ii) one hole, at the place where the bones in 

 1833, were dug up, at the corner of Chesnut and Duke streets. 



Note.— From a letter of the Rev. Elder to Col. Burd, it 

 appears, if the statement be correct, that the Paxton boys did 

 not cut the bodies of the Indians to pieces; but it was done by- 

 others. Elder says, "The inference is plain, that the bodies 

 were thus mangled after death by certain persons, to excite a 

 feeling against the Paxton boys. This fiict, Stewart says he 

 can and will establish in a fair trial at Lancaster York, and 

 Carlisle." 



Note.— Felix Donnelly was keeper of the n-ork house at the 

 time I'le Paxton boys forced in the door, &:c. Donnally was 

 appointed keeper, at the November session 1703; in May 1765, 

 Mathias Booch of the borougli ot Lancaster, was appointed, in 

 his place. 



