The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1879-06-07

Many ot the Swedish settlers along The
Delaware seem at this time to have beroil,
frightened by the prospect OF Il war, and the
| records of the Council of Maryland show
| that Peter Mcyerand Abel Stilc and fifteen
others applied for and had patents of natu.
ralzation issued to them. Many of them
are believed to have settled III SaSSatr:ls
Neck. The Dutch Governor tD'iiinoyo:sa
and Herman We're now Oh the best of terms
and the former was accused by his cUutcn!.
porarie:' Of selling the public stores to tho
latter, and appropriatin@ the money he IT,
ceivcd for them 10 his own Use. The colo,
NAL records for this period show that tn,
Indians OF this county and the Dutch set
tiers were sources OF much annoyance tC
the authorities of Maryland. Nobody had
lieen punished for the murder of the four
i;ngliSlmen upon Iron Hill, and rs we have
seen, !; war with the Dutch WAS imminent.
Probably with Il view of securing I he CO.
operation of the Indians i'll case of Il wal
with the Dutch Gov. Calvert, accompanied
by lis secretary (fIcnry Courscy) and John
Baicnan, one of the councillors, had Il meet
ing with the PaSSagonke Indians, who at
that time. lived on the Delaware river above
Chester, probably where Philadelphia now
stands. This meeting took place at Apo
quinimi (Which is now called Appouuni-
mink, on Thursday, the 10Th of Sepem-
bcr, 1861. The minutes in the Council book
for that year, i'll reference to what was done
at that meeting are so much more interest
ing than any abridglnent of them that We
could make, that we publish them entire
Then came Pima, king Of Picthanomcta,
in Delaware bay, showing that, whereas
there had been divers men slain by the Eng
fish belonging to the PaSsagonkc Indians,
now under his command, and among them
his own brother, in revenge of which divers
English had been slain by those Indians:
yet that he did believe all those outragcS
Were committed by the English without or
ders from the Governor and Council; that
those rcvengeS We're taken by his Indians
without his OF any of his great mems knowl-
edge: therefore Chez did desire that all might
be forgotten, and that from hencctorwar,l
his Indians luight live i'll peace with the
English.
To which the Governor answered that he
did desire peace, SO he did desire justice
also, and provided that they would deliver
up those Indians that killed John Norden
and Stephen Hart with his companions, to
be proceeded against, according to our JUS
tice, he would come to articles of peace with
him.
Whereunto the said Pima answered that
the English had begun the war and first
killed one of his men as he WAS peacrably
coming by their plantation, and overSet
their canoes, out of which they lost three
guns: afterwards pursued them into the
woods and there shot at them: that his In
dams fled, having lost one man and their
goods In their way home they met the
said Norden a.d Hart and companions, and,
contrary to the advice of an cid man of the
company that stood weeping by and per-
suading them to speak with the great men
of the English first, did kill the said Nor
den and Hart and companions, saying that
the English would have war: bat sim e that
time the English had set upon two canoes
of Indians and killed five of them, and
amongst them his own brother. all which,
notwithstanding, he was willing and desir-
Gus to make a peace between us and his
Indians, forgetting the blood of his own
brother
Then did the Governor demand SatiSfic-
ton for the cattle and hogs %: John Taylor
L, l,,- 81,
killed by his Indians, for they Immediately
fled, but by Minquas and SinigoS. (The
Minqua Indians lived along the Christiana
creek, which, at this time, was called the
MinuuaS creek. Siui"oS is the name al,-
piled to the SenecaS, Who at this time and
for many years afterwards, gave the Mary
lan,lcrS much trouble rs we shall see.)
Where,lpon was taken into consideration
the information of John Taylor, Thomas
Overton and others, taken at Speslitia the
18th of May last, and considering til" rcla-
ton of Pima in the main to agree with the
said information, and the Governor and
Council calling to mind TINT the said John
Taylor often. since information in writing
taken, had often said that john Foster,
who shot at the Indian Gas pcrintormation),
affirmed that he had killed him, resolved t,
come to articles with the said Pima upon this
consideration, that the English had begun
the war by the said John Foster killing the
said Indian upon Easter days. And for us
much us it is certain that the said Indians,
whom Foster shot ut, Immediately He'd after
they killed Foster in TIE woods, and upon
the Eth day of April, met Norlen and Hart
near the Iron Hill, and there murder,
them, and that the Minqua or Sinigo III
dams We're about that time doing mischief
and killing cattle about PatapSco river and
those quarters, us appears by the intorina-
ton of Robert GorSuch, taken the 18th of
May aforesaid, resolved that all further de-
mand of satisfaction for these cattle be
waived, and that sufficient provision in the
articles he made for the security of our
stock of cattle and hogs for the future, and
that the treaty be Immediately begun, lest
General StuyveSant at the ManhattanS make
an advantage OF those Indians against us,
it being doubted whether there be Il war
between Holland and England or nor. The
treaty was headed in the old Council book,
from which we copied it, is follows:
"Articles of peace and amity concluded
between the Hon. Philip Calvert, Esq, Gov
ernor, Henry CourSey. Secretary. and John
Iatemln, Councillor, on behalf of the Lord
Proprietary of this province of Maryland,
and Pima, king Of Pictlanomicta, on the
behalf of the PasSagonke Indians on the
other part (viZ.).
Imprimis: That there shall be Il perpetual
peace betwiNt the people Of Maryland and
the PasSagonke Indians.
Second; 1t is agreed between the above
said parties that, in ease amy EngliShman
for the future shall happen to find any Pas
s:,gonkc Indian killing either cattle or hogs,
then il shall be lawful for the English to
kill the said Indian.
Third: 1t is agreed betwiNt the above said
parties that, in case any Indian or Indians
Shall happen to kill any Englishmen (Which
God forbidD, then the said Indian, with all
that company of Indians with him which
consent ii TO the said murder, shall he de
livercd to the English, there to he proceeded
against according to the laws of this pro-
vince.
Fourth: 1t is further agreed betwixt the
above said parties that in case any English
mln shall happen 10 run amongst the Pas
Sagonl.e Indians, the said Indians bring
them to Peter Meyers and then for every
EngliShman that they shall deliver, they
shall receive one match coat.
The mark (M) OF Pima"
The above said articles We're signed inter
changeahly by the Governor and Council
ant! the Indian commissioners, and delivered
this 18th of September, in the thirtie'h year
of III, LordslipS dominion over this pro