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few hours in time to prevent tlie 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 Sugquehanna, 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 the 

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

 was very much siu-prised with a certain account that the 

 young men of Conestoga had made a famous war dance 

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

 immediately ; hereupon, I appointed a coimcil to be held 

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



The particulars of this meeting were never recorded. 

 But before long the Indians became considerably 

 alarmed, at the proposed encroachments of the IVIary- 

 landers; Governor Keith, shortly afterwards,, held a 

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

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

 known by the nanie of " Springett Manor, ^^ in York 

 count3^ 



Closely connected with the Maryland intrusions as to 

 time, an account of which has been presented, the fears 

 of the people of the province were again awakened by 

 a quarrel between two brothers, named Cardedge, and 

 an Indian, named Saanteenee, near Conestoga, in which 

 the latter was killed, with many circmnstances o£ 

 cruelty. 



The known principles of revenge^ professed by the 

 Indians, gave reason to apprehend severe retaliation. — 



