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to be eftectual to keep up their credit, and gradually to reduce and sink 

 them. For which purpose the act, among several others, was passed by 

 the Governor, on the second day of the first month [March] 1722-23. 

 But from the advantage which was soon experienced by this emission, 

 together with the insufficiency of the sum, the government was induced, 

 in the latter end of the same year, to emit £30,000 more on the same 

 terms." 



Keith, in espousing the popular cause, secured the approbation and 

 confidence of the Assembly, but unfortunately incurred the displeasure 

 of the proprietary party and its leader, Logan. Complications arose, 

 which eventuated in the triumph of the latter and the deposition of the 

 former, who was decidedly the best of the proprietary deputies. "Differ- 

 ing from the great body of the people whom he governed, in religion and 

 manners, he acquired their esteem and confidence. If he sought popu- 

 larity, he promoted the public happiness; and his courage in resisting the 

 demands of the family, may be ascribed to a higher motive than private 

 interest. The conduct of the Assembly towards him was neither honor- 

 able nor politic; for his sins against his principals were virtues to the 

 people, with whom he was deservedly a favorite ; and the House should 

 have given him such substantial marks of their gratitude as would have 

 tempted his successors to walk in his steps. But fear of further offence 

 to the proprietary family, the influence of Logan, and a quarrel between 

 the Governor and Lloyd, turned their attention from him to his suc- 

 cessor."^ 



After his removal, Keith resided some time in the province, returned 

 to England and is said to have died poor, in London, about the year 171:9. 



Patrick Gordon was appointed successor of Keith by the family, and 

 formally proposed to the crown, by Springett Penn, their heir-at-law. 

 He seems to have first met the Assembly in the beginning of the 6th 

 month, 172(), though he arrived in the province, with his family, some 

 time before.^ 



"As the colonists extended themselves through the interior of the 

 country, [1727,] they came more frequently and more closely in contact 

 with the natives, and, in despite of the efforts of the government, oppo- 

 sition of habits, interests, and dispositions, led to occasional violence, by 

 either party, and sometimes to bloodshed. A person named Wright had 

 been killed beyond Conestogo, at a place called Snaketown, by the Penn- 

 sylvania Indians. The course directed by the Assembly, on this occa- 

 sion, to obtain redress, was that established for the prosecution of Indian 

 offenders generally. The criminal was demanded of the town or nation 

 to which he belonged, with a threat that, unless he were surrendered 

 within a specified time, the proper officer would be empowered to appre- 

 1 Gordon. Franklin. Mod. Hist. 2 Proud. 



