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302 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1743.
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not permit them to go to fight with the People of Virginia and
to acquaint them of what was agreed upon in Onontago
Which was accepted of in every Town
I enquired what Business of Moment the Six Nations had
under their Deliberation that prevented their coming down to
treat with the Governor of Maryland, Shickellimo asked
whether I could not guess at it, I told him no. Then he said,
how should they come down with a Hatchet struck in their
head, The Governor of Virginia must wash off the Blood first,
and take the Hatchett out of their Head, and dress the Wound
(according to Custom he that struck first must do it) and the
Council of the Six Nations will speak to him, and be reconciled
to him, and bury that Affair in the Ground, that it never may
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be seen nor heard of any more so long as the World stands.
But if the Virginians would not come to do that he (Shikellimo)
believed that there would be a War, but I might assure the
Govr of Pensilva the Warriors would not then come within
the inhabited Part of Pensilvania but direct their Course
directly to Virginia over the big Island in the North West
Branch of Susquehannah
Conrad Weiser
Ordered by his Excellency the Governor with the Advice of
this Board that the present General Assembly which stands
prorogued to the second Tuesday in May next being the
10th day of the same Month be further prorogued to the
second Tuesday in July next being the 12th day of the same
Month and Proclamations issued accordingly.
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At a Council held at the house of his Excellency the Gov-
ernor on Wednesday the first day of June in the 29th year of
his Lordships Dominion Annoq Domini 1743
Present
His Excellency Thomas Bladen Esqr Governor
Th honble | Benjamin Tasker Esqr | Col Levin Gale
Edmund Jenings Esqr | Daniel Dulany Esqr
His Excellency having communicated to this Board the
Report made to him by the honble Levin Gale Esqr of his
having passed Sentence of Death on two Negroes One named
Jack, the Other Harry convicted on friday last at a Court of
Goal Delivery held at Upper Marlborough upon very clear
Evidence of wilfully murdering an Indian Man; It is the
Advice of this Board to his Excellency that He be pleased to
order Warrants to issue for their Execution on the first of July
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