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inhumanly killed Six of the Indians who had lived on Conestogoe Manor 

 for the Course of many Years, peaceably and inoffensively, under the 

 Protection of this Government, on Lands assigned to them for their 

 Habitation. Notwithstanding which, I have received Information that 

 on the Twenty-seventh of the same month, a large party of armed men 

 again assembled and met together in a riotous and tumultuous manner, in 

 the County of Lancaster and proceeded to the Town of Lancaster, where 

 they violently broke open the Work House, and butchered and put to 

 death fourteen of the said Conestogoe Indians, Men, Women, and Children, 

 who had been taken under the immediate Care and Protection of the 

 Magistrates of the said County, and lodged for their better Security in the 

 said Work House, till they should be more effectually provided for by 

 order of the Government : And tvhereas, common Justice loudly demands, 

 and the Laws of the Land, (upon the preservation of which not only the 

 Liberty and Security of every Individual, but the being of the Govern-, 

 ment itself depend), require that the above offenders should be brought 

 to condign Punishment ; I have, therefore, by and with the advice of the 

 Council, published this Proclamation, and do hereby strictly charge and 

 command all Judges, Justices, Sheriffs, Constables, Officers Civil and Mili- 

 tary, and all other his Majesty's faithful and liege Subjects within this 

 Province, to make diligent Search and enquiry after the Authors and Per- 

 petrators of the said last mentioned offence, their Abettors and Accom- 

 plices ; and that they use all possible means to apprehend and secure them 

 in some of the public Gaols of this Province, to be dealt with according 

 to Law. And I do hereby further promise and engage, that any Person 

 or Persons who shall apprehend and secure, or cause to be apprehended 

 and secured, any three of the Ringleaders of the said party, and prose- 

 cute them to conviction, shall have and receive for each the publick reward 

 of Two Hundred Pounds; and any Accomplice, not concerned in the 

 immediate shedding the Blood of the said Indians, who shall make dis- 

 covery of any or either of the said Ringleaders and apprehend and prose- 

 cute them to conviction, shall, over and above the said reward, have all 

 the weight and influence of the government, for obtaining his Majesty's 

 pardon for his offence. 



" Given under my hand and the great seal of the province, at Philadel- 

 phia, January 2, in the 4th year of his Majesty's reign, A. D. 1764. 



"John Penn." 

 "By his command. 



"Joseph Shippen, Jr., Sec'y. 

 " God save the King." 



With a view to prevent the repetition of similar outrages, the Mora- 

 vian Indians were removed to Province Island, near Philadelphia. The 

 insurgents threatened to march down to destroy them also ; the Assem- 



