By the Honourable Patrick Gordon, Esq; lieutenant governour of the province of Pennsylvania and counties of Newcastle, Kent and Sussex upon Delaware, A proclamation : ... Now for prevention of all further and other breaches of the established peace and friendship, between us and the said natives: I doe ... hereby strictly charge & command all and singular His Majesties subjects ... that on no pretence they abuse any Indian native of the nations around us ... or any other coming and demeaning themselves peaceably amongst us ... Given in Council at Philadelphia ... the sixteenth day of May ... 1728

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