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formation was received by the Governor,* "that Sit 

 WilUam Johnson, through the mediation of the Six 

 Nations, had succeeded in disposbig the Shawanese and 

 Delav/ares to an accommodation, and that these tribes 

 had promised to refrain from hostilities. On the part of 

 the province, the Governor suspended the Avar against 

 the Indians, \y proclamation/' A treaty v/as pro- 

 posed, and acceded to. It was held at Easton. But 

 scarce had the Indians returned to their wigwams, when 

 new scenes of cruel murders were perpetrated on the 

 southward of the Blue ISIountains.t The frontier set- 

 tlers were driven into the interior. "In 1755, the 

 country west of the Susquehanna, possessed three 

 thousand men fit to bear arms, and in 1756, exclusive of 

 the provincial forces, there were not one huhdred*, fear 

 having driven the greater part into the interior." 



Successfully to repel the insurgents, the Governor and 

 provincial commissioners raised twenty-five companies, 

 amounting to fourteen hundred men. J Nine of these 



♦Governor Morris of Pennsylvania, thought proper by pro- 

 clamation, to declare war against all Indian nations who should 

 persist in so doing ; offering one hundred and fifty dollars for 

 every hostile Delaware Indian taken alive, and one hundred 

 and thirty dollars for every scalp, inviting at the same time, 

 all those who laid down the hatchet, to meet at a treaty of 

 peace. — Heckewelder'' s Nar. 50. 



fHecliewelder's Narrative. 



|It appears the government was somewhat remiss in timely 

 action. Intelligence arrived at Philadelphia, April 13, 1756, 

 that the people of the back counties were about to meet at 

 Lancaster to march to Philadelphia, and make some demands 

 of the legislature in session. The 15th of the same month J\Ir. 

 Chew and others were sent by the governor to persuade the 

 people to desist. April 21, Mr. Chew and others returned from 

 Lancaster ; and the governor sum.moned the Assembly for the 

 lOth of May.— ila^. Pa. Reg. V. 287. 



