His message desiring the advice of the house.
Their message relative to the complaint of the Shawanese Indians.
Their resolution concerning the Indian trade bill; also concerning irregular and improper petitions.
They adjourn; and two months after re-assemble by special summons.
The message of the assembly in regard to the inlisting purchased servants.
General Shirley's letter of acknowledgment for a voluntary present of clothing sent by the province to his troops.
The assembly remind the governor of the Indian trade bill.
He returns it with amendments; as also their bill for extending the excise.
They adhere to their bills and assign their reasons.
The governor goes to Newcastle and the assembly adjourn.
Sir William Johnson's treaty with the six nations laid before them at their next meeting.
The governor appearing strongly inclined to involve the province in a war with the Delawares and Shawanese, some of the people called Quakers petition for specific measures.
The governor on the other hand alarms the house with an account of a number of people coming in a body to make _demands_ upon them.
The governor takes advantage of this incident to declare war against the said two Indian nations.
He also demands farther supplies, and intimates, that certain Indians, long subsisted by the province, were retiring in discontent, &c.
The resolutions of the assembly concerning a plan of military operations communicated to them by the governor.
The governor's message to them from a place called _Harris's Ferry_.
A petition of the association companies in Philadelphia, concerning the insufficiency of the militia law.
The reply of the assembly to the governor's message, accompanied with a bill for prohibiting provisions.
Another session, and two other messages from the governor, who was still posted at Harris's Ferry.
A money bill ordered, but postponed on the receipt of intelligence from Sir Charles Hardy and Sir William Johnson, that the Delawares and Shawanese were disposed to renew their alliance.
The governor proclaims a suspension of arms.
The assemblies' message to him, in which they again press him to pass the Indian trade bill; he promises to reconsider it; and a second time calls upon them to make some (additional) provision for his support.