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Hamilton, on Sherman's creek, and also another man, 

 w-ith seven of his family. James Cotter demanded of 

 the deponent a canoe which tlie murderers had left, as 

 Cotter told him when the murder was committed. 



Alexander Stephen." 

 Thomas Foster, Justice. 



" Anne Mary Le Roy, of Lancaster, appeared hefore 

 the Chief Burgess, and being sworn on the Holy Evan- 

 gelists of Almighty God, did depose and say, that in the 

 year 1755, when her father John Jacob Le Roy, and 

 many others, were murdered by the Lidians, at JNIa- 

 honey, she, her brother, and some others, were made 

 prisoners, and taken to Kittaning; that strange Indians 

 yisited them; the French told them they were Cones- 

 togoe Indians, and that Isaac was the only Indian true to 

 their interest ; and that the Conestogoc Indians, with the 

 exception of Isaac, were ready to lift the hatchet when 

 ordered by the French. She asked Bill Soc's mother 

 v/hetlicr she had ever been at Kittanir)g ? She said ' no, 

 but her son Bill Soc had been there often ; that he was 

 good for nothing. '*" Mary Le Roy." 



From these depositions, the reader may decide whether 

 .suspicion was well founded or not. " Bill Soc's own 

 motlicr declared he was good for nothina:." 



The friendly Indians, it was fully believed by the 

 Paxtonians, connived at, if not indirectly stimulated the 

 liostilc ones, in their relentless attacks upon the frontier 

 settlers in 17G3. The grounds for this suspicion were 

 sufliciently founded, in tlie opinion of the eagle-eyed 

 Paxton and Donegal Rangers, to watch with a " keen 

 eye " the movements of both parties, friendly and 

 liostilc Indians. In September, the Indians eluded their 

 close, searching pursuit. The Paxton Boys, and their 



"Lancaster Intelligencer & Journal. 



