Roles: British

British representatives are divided into three main groups:

Proprietary officials, led by newly appointed Lt. Governor Denny, are nominally in charge of the negotiation – the council was called by Denny, so he and his councilors, Wm. Logan and Richard Peters, are the hosts. The proprietary party is also represented by a military honor guard, which includes two recruiting officers of the Royal Americans, Lt. McAlpin and Ensign Jeffreys, and several officers of the provincial militia, including: Maj. William Parsons, Capt. Nicholaus Wetterholt, and Capt. John Van Etten.

The interpreters, Lt. Col. Conrad Weiser, Moses Tatamy, and John Pompshire are technically proprietary officials as well, but they are known to follow their own agendas. As far as the proprietary party is concerned, Weiser is the most trustworthy because of his long years of service to the Penn family. He is also an officer of the militia so he is part of the governor’s honor guard.

The anti-proprietary party is represented by four commissioners from the assembly, Joseph Fox, Benjamin Franklin, John Hughes, and William Masters, as well as several citizens from Philadelphia and the surrounding counties, including Benjamin Hooton, John Hunt, Abel James, Israel Pemberton, John Pemberton, Daniel Stanton, Charles Thomson, Jeremiah Warder, Christopher Wilson, and Isaac Zane. Most of the latter are Quakers.

Sources: Reichel, Memorials, 272-273; Parrish, Some Chapters, 31-32.