360 HISTORY DP 



In this maniiei' lay the whole of thenij 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 

 midisturbed till the month of May, 1833, when the 

 workmen employed in excavating for the rail road, dug 

 u;^ the bones.* 



The Governor issued a second proclamation, and offered 



a reward for the discovery of the perpetrators, biU 



without effect 



Proclamation. 



<^ Whereesj 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 



*Peler Maurer informed us that he saw the bodies of the 

 Indians buried in 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 con-ect, 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 fact, Stewart says he 

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

 Carlisle." 



Note.— Felix Donnelly was keeper of the work house at the 

 time the Paxton boys forced in the door, &c. Donnally was 

 appointed keeper, at the November session 1763; in May 1765, 

 Mathias Booch of the borough of Lancaster, was appointed, ia 

 his place. 



