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and upbraiding me for coming to war 

 against them. I will take a moment here 

 to relate some particulars of my first cap- 

 tivity, and my life since. 



" I was taken from New River, in Vir- 

 ginia, by the Miamese, a nation of Indians 

 by us called the Picts, amongst whom I 

 lived six years. Afterwards being sold to 

 a Delaware, and by him put into the hands 

 of a trader, I was carried amongst the 

 Shawanese, with whom I continued six 

 years ; so that my whole time amongst these 

 nations was twelve years that is, from 

 the eighth to the twentieth year of my age. 

 At the treaty at Fort Pitt, in the fall preced- 

 ing what is called Dunmore's war (which, 

 if I am right, was in the year 1773), I came 

 in with the Shawanese nation to the trea- 

 ty ; and meeting with some of my relations 

 at that place, was by them solicited to 

 relinquish the life of a savage, which I did 

 with some reluctance, this manner of life 

 having become natural to me, inasmuch as I 

 had scarcely known any other. I enliste4 



