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hereby required of all the Officers and Soldiers in the Garrison at Augusta, 

 to give you all the assistance possible in the Execution of these Orders, 

 and to be of good behaviour to the Indians, as they are on all occasions 

 to demean themselves towards His Majesty's Subjects with the utmost 

 care and kindness. 



" Given under my Hand and Seal at Arms, at Lancaster, this Twenty- 

 first Day of May, 1757. 



" William Denny." 



The conference at Lancaster was followed by another held in July 

 [1757] at Easton, attended by Teedyuscung and about 300 Indians, with 

 the result that hostilities should cease and the Indians take up the 

 hatchet against the French. A solemn treaty was held the following 

 year at Easton. It lasted from Oct. 7 to Oct. 26, 1758, and was attended 

 on the part of the English by the Governors of Pennsylvania and New 

 Jersey, George Croghan, the agent of Sir William Johnson, six members 

 of the Governor's Council, six members of the House of Representatives, 

 Commissioners from New Jersey, and a large number of Magistrates and 

 citizens from Pennsylvania and the neighboring Provinces, and on the 

 part of the Indians by representatives of the Mohawks, Oneidoes, Onan- 

 dagoes, Senecas, Tuscaroras, Nanticokes and Conoys, Tuteloes, Chugnuts, 

 Delawares and Unamies, Minosinks, Mohickons, Wapings or Pumptons, 

 and others, numbering men, women and children, all told 509. In con- 

 sequence of this treaty peace and friendship were restored between the 

 English and the Indians, and Thomas King at the final meeting in behalf 

 of the United Nations (now eight in number) said "that the Nations were 

 vastly pleased that all the ancient treaties made there, at Albany, and 

 elsewhere were renewed, as well as that the old Council Fire at Phila- 

 delphia was kindled again, and a good Road made to it, that might be 

 travelled without danger; these in particular, as well as every other 

 matter transacted at these conferences, we will make known to our own 

 Nations and to every other in Friendship and Alliance with us, and we 

 are sure they will be very well received." 



After the capture of Fort Du Quesne by General Forbes, on Novem- 

 ber 25, it was garrisoned by 450 men, chiefly Provincial troops, from 

 Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia, under the command of Colonel 

 Mercer.i The remainder of the army was marched into the interior, and 

 quartered at Lancaster, Reading, and Philadelphia. There being no 

 barracks at the former places, the soldiers were billetted upon the in- 

 habitants, who complained grievously of the irregularity of the men, and 

 the caprice, favour, and oppression of the officers. The Assembly, having 

 remonstrated in vain on these enormities, finally directed barracks to be 

 erected at Lancaster. 



1 Gordon. Hazard's Reg. 



