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During the time of these hostilities, the doors of the 

 Sieben Taeger at Ephrata were open for the reception 

 of th« inhabitants of Tulpehocken and Paxton settle- 

 ments. They did not even consider their cloisters, 

 chapels and meeting rooms too sacred ; these they gave 

 for the accommodation of those who were driven from 

 their homes by the incursions of the hostile Indians. To 

 give both the inhabitants and those who fled thither, 

 protection against the infuriated savage, a company of 

 infantry was despatched by the Government from Phila- 

 delphia to Ephrata,* and on representation of the 

 character of the society, by the commissioners who were 

 sent to visit the place, the Government made them offers 

 of large presents, which they respectfully declined to 

 receive, except two large communion goblets, which was 

 the only recompence they would receive.! 



elsderfer, they killed on-e man, two women. Six children, 

 slipped under the bed, one of whom was burned, the other 

 escaped. 



In March, 1756, they burned the house and barn of Barnabas^ 

 Seitle, and the mill of Peter Conrad, in Berks county, and 

 killed the wife of Balser Neytong, and made captive his son, a 

 lad of eight years of age: they fired upon David Howel, five 

 times, and the last time shot him through the arm. — Gordon. 



Peter Miller, in his Chronicon Epliratense, p. 203, speak- 

 ing of this period, says : — Untcrdessen kam der Fiend alle 

 Tage dem Lager der Einsamen naeher, und war nur noch 13 

 Meilen davon ab, die Fluectiingeliefen Ephrata zu und suchten 

 shutz by denen, die des shultzes selbst bedurften. Alle Tage 

 brachten die Boten neue Nachtrichten von Mordthaten, 

 welches sie ins gemien einem ncucn Zusatz vermehrten. 



*Manche zeiten war Ephrata voUer Roth-roecke. — Chron. 

 Ephra. 202. 



fW. M. Fahnestock, M. D. 



