56 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1761-1769.

Lib. J. R.
& U. S.

Ordered the present General Assembly which stands pro-
rogued to 11^th June be further Prorogued to the first day of
October next and Proclamations issued Accordingly

At a Council held at the City of Annapolis on the 7^th of
June 1763
Present
His Excellency Horatio Sharpe Esq^r Governor
Benjamin Tasker Stephen Bordley John Ridout Esquires.

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7 June 1763.
Sir

I am commanded to transmit to you the inclosed Copy of a
Letter you sent the Governor this Day, which you are desired
to communicate to the Inhabitants of your County that they
may be upon their Guard, and you must caution them against
molesting any Indians that may come into or approach your
County unless they should be attacked by them.
I am your Humble servant
John Ross.

May it please your Excellency Old Town May 1763.
On Saturday the 14^th instant a Party of between 70 and 80
of the Six Nation Indian Warriors, came here, with a pass
from Cap^t Ourry and Col^o Croghan, and a Letter from the
latter, desiring me to give those Indians a Pass, After I had
read the Letter and put it my Pocket they asked me for some
Powder, Lead, Knives, Halfthicks, Paint, and Tobacco, I
told them I had none, at which they seemed to look very angry,
and after discoursing among themselves in their own Lan-
guage, they said M^r Croghan had told them, that he had wrote
to me, in that Letter, to give them the several things above
mentioned, I answered I had no goods at all, they still doubt-
ing my telling them true, I sent for an Interpreter, (M^r John
Walker) to interpret the Letter to them, a Copy of which is
inclosed, These Indians say that some time last Summer, at
a Treaty with their Brother Onas (the Governor of Pensyl-
vania) at Philadelphia, they desired him to acquaint their
Brother Toheryhogan, meaning your Excellency) that it was
their request, you would order them to be furnished, as before
mentioned, with Victuals and the goods mentioned above, and
that their Brother Onas, and the great men, did then promise
they would Communicate this their request to your Excellency,
which they find has not been Complied with, therefore they
desired me to write to you in their behalfs, which at their