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loj this Government, and the interposition and positive orders of our 

 faithful friends and allies the Six Nations, to whom they owe obedience 

 and subjection, requiring and commanding them to desist from any 

 further acts of hostility against us, and to return to their allegiance, the 

 said Indians do still continue their cruel murders and ravages, sparing 

 neither age nor sex; I have, therefore, by and with the advice and con- 

 sent of the Council, thought fit to issue this Proclamation ; and do hereby 

 declare the said Delaware Indians and all others who, in conjunction with 

 them, have committed hostilities against his Majesty's subjects within 

 this Province, to be enemies, rebels and traitors to his most sacred 

 Majesty; and I do hereby require all his Majesty's subjects of this Pro- 

 vince, and earnestly invite those of the neighboring Provinces, to embrace 

 all opportunities of pursuing, taking, killing, and destroying the said 

 Delaware Indians and all others confederated with them in committing 

 hostilities, incursions, murders, or ravages upon this Province. And 

 Whereas, sundry of our good friends and allies, the Six Nations and 

 other friendly Indians, are seated upon and do inhabit the country to the 

 northward of the mouth of a river falling into the Sasquehannah, called 

 Cayuga Branch, and those of the Six Nations now in town have desired 

 that our hostilities against the said enemy Indians might not therefore be 

 carried on more northerly than a line extending from the mouth of the 

 .said Cayuga Branch, at an Indian town called Diahoga or Tohiccon, to 

 the station point between the Provinces of New York and Jersey, at the 

 Indian town called Cashetunk, upon Delaware; the said Indians promis- 

 ing us their hearty and best assistance. I do, therefore, hereby declare 

 that the Indians livino- and being to the northward of a line drawn from 

 the mouth of the said Cayuga Branch to the said Station Point are not 

 included in this Declaration of War. 



^^And Whei-eas, many Delaware and other Indians, abhorring the un- 

 grateful, cruel and perfidious behavior of that part of the Delaware tribe 

 and others that have been concerned in the late inhuman ravages, have 

 removed into the settled and inhabited parts of the country, put them- 

 selves under the protection of this and the neighboring governments, 

 and live in a peaceable manner with the King's subjects; I do therefore 

 declare, that the said friendly Indians that have so separated themselves 

 from our said enemies, and all others who shall join or act with us in the 

 prosecution of this just and necessary war, are expret^sly excepted out of 

 this declaration, and it is recommended to all officers and others to afford 

 them protection and assistance. Ayid Whereas, the Commissioners ap- 

 pointed with me to dispose of the Sixty Thousand Pounds lately granted 

 by Act of General Assembly for his Majesty's use have, by their letter 

 to me of the tenth instant, agreed to pay out of the same the several 

 rewards for Prisoners and Scalps hereinafter specified; and, therefore, 



