proclamation, ordering all judges, sheriffs, and "all His Majes- ty's liege subjects in the province," to make every effort to apprehend the authors and perpetrators of this crime, also their abettors and accomplices. But the "Paxton Boys" held magistrates and governor alike in derision. Two wecks later they assembled again, fifty strong, rode to Lancaster, dismount- ed, broke open the doors of the jail, aud killed every Indian there.

"When the poor wretches saw they had no nor could possibly escape, and being without the least weapon of defence, they divided their little families, the children cling protection nigh, ing to their parents. They fell on their faces, protested their innocence, declared their love to the English, and that in their whole lives they had never done them injory. And in this posture they all received the hatchet. Men, women, and cil- dren wcrc cусгу опе The barbarous men who committed the atrocious act, in defi anco of goverument, of all laws, human and divine, and to the eternal disgracc of their country and color, then mountod their horses, huzzaed in triumph, as if they had gained and rode off unmolested. * The bodies of the mnrdered inhumanly murdered in cold blood. * vietory, were then brought out and exposed in the street till a hole could be made in the earth to receive and cover them. But the wickedness cannot be corered, and the guilt will lie on the whole land til justice is done on the murderers. The blood of the innocent will cry to lleaven for vengeance."

These last extracts are from a pamphlet printed in Phila- delphia at the time of the massacre; printed anonymously, because so much had fear seized the minds of the people" that neither the writer nor the printer dared to give "name or place of abode."

There are also private letters still preserved which give accounts of the affair. A part of one from William Henry, of Lancaster, to a friend in Philadelphia, is given in "Rupp's His