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Mr. Bailsman was appointed Barrack-Master. 



The following statistics of Lancaster county in 1760 will be read witli 

 interest. 



436,346 acres of land; 5,635 Taxables; £1. 2s. Od, each taxed; amount 

 of Tax, £6178. 10s. Od. 



In August 1762, Governor Hamilton held a Treaty with the Indians 

 at Lancaster, the purport of which appears from the subjoined Message 

 of the Governor to the Assembly : 



A Message fro7n the Governor to the Asseriibbj. 



"Gentlemen: In pursuance of sundry Invitations from this Govern- 

 ment to the Indians living to the Westward, on and near the Waters of 

 the Ohio, Deputies from several of those Nations (whom we have not 

 seen since the Commencement of the late War) met me at Lancaster on 

 the ninth of last month, where, in divers Conferences held for that pur- 

 pose, the peace and Friendship, which formerly subsisted betwixt us, but 

 which of late had unhappily been interrupted, were fully renewed and 

 established. 



"A very considerable number also of the Six Nation Indians, from the 

 Northward, and others residing on the river Susquehannah and its Branches, 

 attended at the same time and place, who likewise renewed with us the 

 ancient Chain of Friendship which had so long subsisted between them 

 and his Majesty's Subjects. And I have the pleasure to acquaint you 

 that, as a Testimony of the Sincerity of the professions both of the West- 

 ern and Northern Indians, sundry of our people who had been taken 

 Captive during the late War, have already been delivered up to me, and 

 solemn Engagements entered into, on the part of the Indians, to restore, in 

 a short time, all such others as still remain in their Towns and Countries. 



"For further particulars I refer you to the Copy of the Treaty here- 

 with delivered to you. 



"James Hamilton."* 



" September 21st, 1762." 



Indian hostilities were general at this time [1763] and marked by every 

 species of cruelty; fire, the tomahawk and the scalping-knife Avere the 

 instruments of the savages. Scalping parties traversed the land, sur- 

 prised the people at night, at their meals or in the fields, put them to the 

 knife and set fire to houses, barns, corn, hay and to whatever was com- 

 bustible. Under these circumstances it need not occasion surprise that 

 even the neutral Indians, remnants of the Delaware and Six Nation 

 tribes and dwelling among the whites, for whom they professed attach- 

 ment, became objects of suspicion and hatred, especially when the neu- 

 trality of some of them, at least, was justly suspected. 



The settlers at Paxton, goaded to desperation by repeated murders 

 perpetrated by Indians, resolved to punish the murderers. Scouts brought 



