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and threatened her life, saying, ' I kill you, all Lancaster 

 can't catch me,' which filled me with terror :' and this 

 lady further said, 'Bill Soc added, 'Lancaster is mine, 

 and I will have it yet.' " 



"Colonel John Hambright, gentleman, an eminent 

 brewer of the borough of Lancaster, personally appeared 

 before Robert Thompson, Esq., a justice for the coimty 

 of Lancaster, and made oath on the Holy Evangelists, 

 that in August, 1757, he, an officer, was sent for provi- 

 sion from Fort Augusta to Fort Hunter, that on his way 

 he rested at McKee's old place ; a sentinel was sta- 

 tioned behind a tree to prevent surprise. The sentry 

 gave notice, Indians were near ; the deponent crawled 

 up the bank and discovered two Indians, one was Bill 

 Soc, lately killed at Lancaster. He called Bill Soc to 

 come to him, but the Indians ran off. When the depo- 

 nent came to Fort Hunter, he learnt that an old man had 

 been killed before ; Bill Soc and his companions were 

 believed to be the perpetrators of the murder. He, the 

 deponent, had frequently seen Bill Soc and some of the 

 Conestogoc Indians at Fort Augusta, trading with the 

 Indians, but, after the murder of the old man. Bill Soc 



did not appear at that garrison." 



John Hambright. 



Sworn and subscribed the 28th of February, 1764,. 

 before me, Robert Thompson, Justice. 



"Alexander Stephen, of the county of Lancaster, per- 

 sonally appeared before Thomas Foster, Esq., one of the 

 magistrates, and being duly qualified according to law, 

 doth say, that Cannayak Sally, an Indian woman, told him 

 that the Conestogoe Indians had killed Jegrea, an Indian, 

 because he would not join the Conestogoe Indians in 

 destroying dio English. James Cotter told the deponent 

 that he was one of the three that killed William 



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