Minute of a Conference with the Indians at Philadelphia, held at the Governor's house

              A Message to the Governor from the Assembly
May it please your honour,
We beg leave to observe that by the minutes of
the Conference laid before us from time to time since the Treaty at Easton
it does not appear that any effectual measures have been taken to recover
our Fellow subjects from the Captivity they are under with the Indians,
with whom a Peace has been long since concluded; nor even to remind
them of their Engagements to restore them, We therefore think it our 
Duty to recommend ^it^ to your honour before the Indians depart from 
this City to make some Enquiry after the Captives, & to take such measures
as shall be most likely to restore them to their Country Families and Friends:
We also think it absolutely necessary for the welfare of this Province and
the Promotion of his Majesty's Indian Interest in America, that a
friendly and kind Invitation should be given to the Chiefs of each of 
the Eight tribes of Indians that have by a late Messenger shewn[sic] an
Inclination to enter into an alliance with His Majesty, & take up Arms
against his Enemies, that some of them would, when it was convenient 
to them, take an Opportunity of visitng this Government, and further
ratifying the great Work of Peace so happily begun and now almost
perfected. The good Effects this Province has already felt and His
Majesty's Interest in general is like to receive from the late Conferences
with them are such Proofs of the good Policy of such an Invitation, that
we hope we need not add any thing further to inforce it.
Signed by order of the House
March 24th: 1758
Thos. Leech- Speaker

At a Conference with the Indians at the Governor's 
house, Saturday 25th: March 1758-
Present,
The Honourable William Denny Esquire Lieutenant Governor
Willm Logan}
Rich. Peters} Esquires
Lynford Lardner}
The same Indians as before
Conrad Weiser Esquire
Isaac Still, Interpreter
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