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Du Simitière Papers, Library Company of Philadelphia, Box 3, f. 22IMAGE INFORMATION

Minutes of Council held at Philadelphia, 21 August 1744

Object Status:

Extant

Accession Date:

N.d.

Primary Source Reference:

Du Simitière Papers, Library Company of Philadelphia, Box 3, f. 22

Notes:

These are manuscript minutes of a council held on 21-24 Aug 1744 between the lieutenenat governor of Pennsyvania and other officials and deputies of the Delaware Indians. The minutes were later printed by Benjamin Franklin as pp. 11-16 of Votes and proceedings of the House of Representatives of the province of Pennsylvania. Met at Philadelphia, on the fifteenth of October, anno Dom. 1744, and continued by adjournments (Philadelphia, 1745).

Du Simitière also owned those pages of the longer publication.