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and particularly into their estates, was unjust and dangerous in precedent. ^ 

 The House yielded to the force of his reasons, and did not insist upon 

 their bill, but it was not until some time afterwards that the privileges of 

 isubjects were granted to the palatines. Indeed, the timidity of the As- 

 sembly induced them to check the importation of foreigners by a duty on 

 :all coming to reside in the province. 



A disagreement relating to hunting-grounds, between the Southern 

 and Pennsylvania Indians, threatened to disturb the peace of the province. 

 To avert this,'^ Keith paid a visit to the Governor of Virginia, with whom 

 he framed a convention, confining the Indians on the north and south of 

 the Potomac to their respective sides of that river ; which the Pennsyl- 

 vania and Five Nation Indians, at a general conference, held at Conestogo 

 on the sixth of July, 1721, fully ratified. This visit was made with much 

 state. Keith was attended by a suite of sevent}^ horsemen, many of them 

 well armed, and was welcomed on his return, at the upper ferry on the 

 Schuylkill, by the mayor and aldermen of the city, accompanied by two 

 hundred of the most respectable citizens. 



The following extract from the Warrant for surveying the Manor of 

 Springetsbury, issued by Sir William Keith to Col. John French, Fran- 

 cis Worley and James Mitchell, Esqrs., bearing date Conestogo June 18, 

 1722, describes the boundaries of said Manor. The said persons assisted 

 by neighboring inhabitants were authorized, empowered and commanded 

 "to cross the Eiver Susquahannah, and to survey or cause to be surveyed, 

 marked and located, the quantity of 70,000 acres or thereabouts, in the 

 name and for the use of the Honorable Springett Penn, Esq., which shall 

 bear the name and be called the Mannor of Springettsbnry, Beginning 

 your survey as near as you can upon the South West Bank of the Eiver 

 Susquahannah, over against the mouth of Conestogoe Creek; from thence 

 by a line W. S. W. Distance Ten miles more or less; from thence by a 

 line N. W. b. N. Twelve miles more or less ; thence by a line E. N. E. 

 .until you meet with the uppermost Corner tree of my settlement called 

 ISfewberry; from thence S. E. b. S. along my head Line until you come 

 :at my Southern Corner tree in the woods ; from thence down the Side 

 Line of my Land E. N. E. until you come at the River Susquahannah, 

 and from thence by the Said River's side unto the place where you first 

 began, which Line will be the fourth side of the said Survey, and when 

 it is done and finished, you are to make a Return thereof upon the back 

 of this Warrant unto the Govr. and Council of Pensilvania ; For which 

 this shall be unto you, the sd. Colo. John French, Francis Worley, 

 every of you, a sufficient Warrant, Power and authority." 



The Return: 



" In obedience to the within Warrant to us directed, We did, upon the 

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