184 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.

Letter Bk. IV

a Parallel of Latitude will content themselves with ascertain-
ing a certain Number of Points in such Parallel at the Distance
of four five or six Miles from each other. I presume you will
know before this reaches you that the Pennsylvania Assembly
desirous to obtain a Change of Government & to be immedi-
ately under the Crown have sent M^r Franklin again to England
in the Character of their Agent to sollicit such a Change to
which however many of the most considerable Inhabitants &
thirteen Members of the Assembly are extremely averse &
have transmitted Counter Petitions & by what I can learn the
Province by reason of such Disparity in the Sentiments &
Wishes of the people is at present a Scene of great Confusion.
As to the people in this Province they are now very quiet but
should M^r Franklyn succeed in his Application for a Change
of Government in Pennsylvania I doubt not but there will be
enough busy mischievous Men among us also to raise a Dust
& stir up the People to subscribe similar Petitions, but if on
the Contrary M^r Franklyn should meet with a Rebuff from
the Ministry I am persuaded it will have a good Effect on
Those who wish to see a little Confusion here also or to make
His Lordship or me uneasy. I am &c.

Original.

[Gage to Sharpe.]

New York December 7^th 1764
Sir
It gives me great pleasure to be able to acquaint you that
by an Express arrived from the heads of the Muskingham I
am informed that the Shawnese and Delawares and other
Tribes on the Ohio have been reduced to the most humiliat-
ing Peace by His Majesty's Arms under the Command of
Colonel Bouquet and that a general Peace is now made with
all the Nations who had risen in Arms against us. The Perfidy
of the Shawnese and Delawares, the Contempt they shewed us
and the breaking thro' all the ties and Engagements, which
even Savage Nations hold Sacred amongst each other, made
it absolutely necessary to reduce them by force, and to March
into their Country: The Troops under Colonel Bouquet have
penetrated into the heart of their Settlement and Oblidged
them to deliver up all their Prisoners, even their own Children
Born of White Women, and to send Deputies to Sir William
Johnson to Settle a Peace upon such further Terms as should
be imposed upon Them, for the performance of the last, and
as a Security that no further Hostilities should be Committed,
a number of their Principal Chiefs have been delivered up as
Hostages, above Two Hundred Prisoners had been delivered
into our Hands, and more were Expected from the Shawnese,