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[FORT STANWIX, TREATY OF]. GALLOWAY, Joseph (1729-1803), Pennsylvania Legislator, Loyalist and spy. Manuscript Document signed ("Joseph Galloway, Speaker"), as Speaker of the Pennsylvania Assembly, to Pennsylvania Governor John Penn, headed "Message to the Governor from the Assembly, N.p. [Phladelphia?], 10 February 1769.
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[FORT STANWIX, TREATY OF]. GALLOWAY, Joseph (1729-1803), Pennsylvania Legislator, Loyalist and spy. Manuscript Document signed ("Joseph Galloway, Speaker"), as Speaker of the Pennsylvania Assembly, to Pennsylvania Governor John Penn, headed "Message to the Governor from the Assembly, N.p. [Phladelphia?], 10 February 1769.
1 full page, folio, integral blank with endorsements on verso, a few minor marginal defects.
THE PENNSYLVANIA ASSEMBLY VOWS TO COMPLY WITH THE TREATY OF FORT STANWIX, pledging to deal justly with the Indian tribes and discouraging and preventing new English settlement on Indian lands. The Treaty of Fort Stanwix, negotiated by Sir William Johnston and the Iroquois confederacy, had established a definitive western boundary between lands belonging to the Proprietors of Pennsylvania (the Penn heirs) and lands occupied by the Indians of the Six Nations. Territory to the west of the line, running from Fort Stanwix south to the Delaware, then along the Susquehanna to the Allegheny and down the Ohio to the mouth of the Tennessee.
"We have taken into our Consideration your Message, acquainting us, that a General Boundary line was happily settled, by Sir William Johnson His Majesty's Superintendent of Indian Affairs, between the Indians of the six nations, the Delawares and Shawnese [sic], and his Majestys Middle Colonies. The Accomplishments of a measure so important to the British interest in America could not fail to give us the utmost Satisfaction, as we reason to expect it will be Means of preserving that Harmony and Friendship between these colonies and the Natives... It is also particularly agreeable...to learn that the Proprietaries of this Province [the Penn family] have purchased a large tract of Country within that Boundary, from whence a Prospect afforded of new and extensive Settlements, and further increase of Inhabitants within the Province..."
"Nothing," Galloway adds, "in our power shall be wanting, which shall appear necessary and effectuant to prevent future Settlements on the lands unpurchased of the Indians, and every other Abuse or Act of Injustice that can reasonably create in them a Disaffection to the Colonies in general or in the Province in particular."
The new Fort Stanwix line lay further west than the line previously established by the proclamation of 1763, and settler incursions into the area between the two lines began almost before the ink was dry on the Treaty itself. Galloway, a close friend of Franklin, remained as Speaker until 1775, when his strong Tory sentiments finally forced him from office. He later returned to England.
1 full page, folio, integral blank with endorsements on verso, a few minor marginal defects.
THE PENNSYLVANIA ASSEMBLY VOWS TO COMPLY WITH THE TREATY OF FORT STANWIX, pledging to deal justly with the Indian tribes and discouraging and preventing new English settlement on Indian lands. The Treaty of Fort Stanwix, negotiated by Sir William Johnston and the Iroquois confederacy, had established a definitive western boundary between lands belonging to the Proprietors of Pennsylvania (the Penn heirs) and lands occupied by the Indians of the Six Nations. Territory to the west of the line, running from Fort Stanwix south to the Delaware, then along the Susquehanna to the Allegheny and down the Ohio to the mouth of the Tennessee.
"We have taken into our Consideration your Message, acquainting us, that a General Boundary line was happily settled, by Sir William Johnson His Majesty's Superintendent of Indian Affairs, between the Indians of the six nations, the Delawares and Shawnese [sic], and his Majestys Middle Colonies. The Accomplishments of a measure so important to the British interest in America could not fail to give us the utmost Satisfaction, as we reason to expect it will be Means of preserving that Harmony and Friendship between these colonies and the Natives... It is also particularly agreeable...to learn that the Proprietaries of this Province [the Penn family] have purchased a large tract of Country within that Boundary, from whence a Prospect afforded of new and extensive Settlements, and further increase of Inhabitants within the Province..."
"Nothing," Galloway adds, "in our power shall be wanting, which shall appear necessary and effectuant to prevent future Settlements on the lands unpurchased of the Indians, and every other Abuse or Act of Injustice that can reasonably create in them a Disaffection to the Colonies in general or in the Province in particular."
The new Fort Stanwix line lay further west than the line previously established by the proclamation of 1763, and settler incursions into the area between the two lines began almost before the ink was dry on the Treaty itself. Galloway, a close friend of Franklin, remained as Speaker until 1775, when his strong Tory sentiments finally forced him from office. He later returned to England.