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small parties went in various directions into the settle- 

 ments, and after night, committed the most atrocious 

 murders. Near Roanoke, they killed a great number of 

 the Palatines, who had come to America with Graffen- 

 ried, and many others. This distressing intelligence 

 coming to the ears of Governor Craven, who immedi- 

 ately despatched Col. Barnwell, with 600 militia and 

 366 Indians, to the relief of the settlers. As soon as Barn- 

 well and his men arrived, he attacked the Indians, killed 

 300, and took about 100 prisoners. After this rough 

 encounter, the Tuscaroras retreated to their fortified 

 town ; Barnwell pursued and surrounded them, killed a 

 considerable number, and obliged the living to sue 

 for peace. About one thousand of them were killed, 

 Avounded and taken. 



Most of ihe Tuscaroras, after this defeat, abandoned 

 tlieir country and repaired to the Five Nations, who 

 received them in their confederacy, and made them the 

 Sixth Nation.* 



Gov. Spotswood, in a letter dated Williamsburg, 

 January 25, 1719-20, speaking of the Indians on the 

 Susquehanna: Your Indians were actually in these 

 parts (Virginia) assisting the Tuscaroras, Avho had mas- 

 sacred in cold blood some hundreds of the English, and 

 were then (1712 and 1713) warring against us, and they 

 have at this very day (1719) the chief murderers, with 

 the greatest part of that nation, seated under their pro- 

 tection, near Susquehannah river, whither they removed 



♦Jefferson's Va. 138. 



Note— "1717, the Rev. Mr. Waynian, missionary to the Welsh 

 settlements of Radnor and Oxford, frequently visited Pequea, 

 Conestoga, and the Indian settlements of Conestoguc. He 

 baptized many children of Quakers, and some who had been 

 Quaiicrs."— R. C. Lan. Intel!. &c Jour. 



