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no lands in York and Lancaster counties to the Irish ; 

 and also to make advantageous overtures to the Irish 

 settlers on Paxton and Swatara, and Donegal townships, 

 to induce them to remove to Cumberland county, which 

 offer being liberal, was accepted by many."* 



While warm feelings were engendered among the 

 Germans and Irish against each other, the savage Indian 

 was, in a distant part of the county, imbruing his hands 

 in the blood of the whites. Murhancellin, an Indian 

 chief, of the Delaware tribe, murdered John Armstrong 

 and his two servants on Juniata. He was soon appre- 

 hended by Captain Jack's party, conveyed to Lancaster 

 jail, where after several months, imprisonment he was 

 removed to Philadelphia jail, "lest he should escape, or 

 his trial and execution should produce an unfavorable 

 impression on his countrymen about to assemble, for a 

 conference with the whites, at Lancaster. '^ The gov- 

 ernor also required that the property of the deceased 

 should be returned to his family; and he invited a dep- 

 utation to attend the trial of the Indian, and his execu- 

 tion, should he be found guilty.t 



The proposed conference, held in Lancaster 1745, was 

 attended by Gov. Thomas himself, in person, and by 

 agents from Virginia and Maryland, and from the 

 Iroquois tribes. This treaty or conference was con- 

 ducted with much parade and formality, after the Indian 

 manner. "All matters of dispute between the parties 

 were satisfactorily settled. The Indians engaged to 

 prevent the French, and the Indians in their alliance, 

 from marching through their country, to attack the 



*The Works, Moores, Galbraiths, Bells, Whitehills, Silvers, 



Semples, Sterrits, Woods, early settlers in the east end of 



Cumberland county, were from Donegal township. 



fGordon's Pa. 246, 247. 



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