a time of peace, and when they were supplying your necessi- ties. This conduct is sufficient to make the traders very shy of going to your country, and, there ore, I think it indispensably to your interest to grant this request, which, though it will be but a small reward, will show the world teat

between some militiamen and warriors of the Six Nations, with losses on both sides. The governor temporarily healed the breach, and arranged for the gathering to be held at Lancaster. The Meeting Place The sessions of the council were held in our first courthouse, located in the center of Penn Square

record of that tribe, we find that the Delawares. the Nanticokes and the Shawneese (each of which were also known by a confusion of other names), were originally known as one people, known as the Algonquin family. When these tribes separated, the Shawneese were a powerful nation which went southward, but

county seat of Lancaster county. When that decision was made, John Postle- thwaite hurriedly fitted his building for a temporary Court House, which is now George Fehl's dwelling house. In this building the first sessions of Court were held. A prison was built, with a high wall, just west of what is now