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by this Court. Ordered per curiam, That the said Robert Teas depart 

 out of this province by the tenth day of December next. 



To the Hon. Patrick Gordon, Esq., Governor of the Province of 

 Pennsylvania. 



Whereas, By an act of General Assembly of this Province for erect- 

 ing the Upper Part of the Province into a county, called the county of 

 Lancaster,^ It was enacted that it might and should be lawful to and for 

 Caleb Pearce, John Wright, Thomas Edwards and James Mitchell, or 

 any three of them, to purchase a piece of land, situate in some convenient 

 place, in the said county, to be approved of by the Governor, whereon 

 to build a Court House and Prison for the use of said county. 



These may certify the Governor that we, the subscribers, after much 

 pains and diligent search for a proper place for the aforesaid use, for the 

 ease and accommodation of the majority of the inhabitants, have agreed 

 upon a certain lot of land lying on or near a small run of water, between 

 the Plantations of Rudy Mire, Michael Shank and Jacob Imble, and being 

 about ten miles from the Susquehannah river, which we conceive the 

 most convenient for the use aforesaid. And we pray the Governor would 

 please to approve and confirm the same, that we may proceed to pur- 

 chase and build as the said law directs. 



Caleb- Peirce, 

 John Wright, 

 James Mitchell. 

 Approved by the Governor on Feb. 17th, 1729-30. 



The bodies of three Indians, two men and one woman, having been 

 found buried in a certain run,^ covered with some logs and stone, the 

 Coroner's inquiries showed that they were the bodies of three Indians, 

 an old man, his son, a young man, and his daughter, a girl about 14 years 

 old, and had been murdered by the old man's squaw for the sole purpose 

 that she might marry another man. 



A letter from Capt. Civility to the Governor: 



May it Please ye Hon'ble Governor : Some time since I was at our 

 county town of Lancaster, when I heard much talk that both Dutch and 

 English was agoing to settle on ye other side of Susquehannah. Likewise 

 Mr. Wright and Mr. Blunston hath surveyed a great deal of land and de- 

 signs to dispose of it to others, which giveth me and my brethren a great 

 deal of trouble, it being in our road in our hunting, lest our young men 

 should break the chain of friendship which hath long existed between us. 



We are grieved that Mr. Wright should not mind his word, for when 

 he first came to our parts he often said that no person should settle on 

 that side of the river without our consent, but now we find he to be ye 

 first and to encourage others. 



iPenn'a. Archives. apenu'a. Archives, i. pp. 267-200. 



