178 Miscellaneous Papers 



Minutes of Several Meetings with the Indians. 



1756, April 19-1765, May 11. Philadelphia and Fort Pitt. 

 Mem. 10 p. LVIII, 3. 



By The Academy of Sciences of Paris. May 8. 1756. 



Report made by a commission appointed to examine a project for the 

 establishment of a foundry or factory for making a new kind of cannon 

 or ordnance, by a secret process invented by M. Hannoteau, who claimed 

 the new gun would be lighter, more durable and less costly than the 

 old style cannon. The conclusions of the report are favorable to the 

 project and to the claims of the inventor. Diss. 6 p. (In French.) 



XLIX, 8. 



From Ferd[inand] John Paris to Richard Partridge [London]. 

 1756. August 14. 



He presented to His Majesty in Council, two Acts of Assembly 

 passed in Pennsylvania. ( i ) An Act for dispersing the inhabitants of 

 Nova Scotia imported into this Province, into the several counties 

 of Philadelphia, Bucks, Chester and Lancaster, and make provisions 

 for the same. (2) An Act for regulating the officers and soldiers 

 commissioned and raised by the Governor for the defence of this Prov- 

 ince. L. S. I p. XLVII, 7. 



From The Proprietors of the Province of Pennsylvania to A Com- 

 mittee Appointed by the Meeting for Pennsylvania and New 

 Jersey. 1756. August 19. 



First thoughts of an answer relative to the Lower County's Militia 

 Act of the Assembly. D. 2 p. LII, 28. 



From Lt. Col. Henry Bouquet to the Governor of Pennsylvania 

 [William Denny] . 1756. December 15. Philadelphia. 



Demanding immediate quarters for Gen. [Daniel] Webb, his two 

 aides-de-camp and one battalion of the Royal American Regiment, also 

 a hospital capable of holding 100 sick. A. L. S. i p. I, 45. 



Minutes of the Friendly Association for Regaining and Preserving 

 Peace with the Indians by Pacific Measures. 



1757- January 4 and 8, at Alexander Seaton's. 

 D. S. Abel James, Clerk. 2 p. LII, 29. 



