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companies were commanded by Lieut. Colonel Conrad 

 Weiser; they were stationed at different points, to meet 

 the exigencies of the time and place, one at Fort Augusta; 

 one at Hunter's mill, seven miles above Harrisburg, on 

 the Susquehanna; one-half company on the Swatara, at 

 the foot of the North Mountain; one company and a 

 half at Fort Henry, close to the gap of the mountain, 

 called Tothea Gap; one company at Fort William, near 

 the forks of the Schuylkill river, six miles beyond the 

 mountain; one company at Fort Allen, at Gnadenhutten, 

 a Moravian settlement : the other three companies were 

 scattered between the rivers Lehigh and Delaware, at 

 the disposition of the captains, some at farm-houses, 

 others at mills, from three to twenty in a place. Major 

 James Burd and Colonel Armstrong, had the command 

 of the other companies; these were principally sta- 

 tioned west of the Susquehanna.* ^' The Shawanese and 

 Delaware Indians, stimulated and abetted by the French, 

 kept up their hostilities, till 1757, when negotiations for 

 peace commenced with Teedyuscung, the chief of the 

 Delaware and Shawanese tribes, on the Susquehanna, 

 their fury abated. But the French and Western Indians, 

 still roamed in small parties over the country, committing 

 murders. The counties of Cumberland, Berks, North- 

 ampton and Lancaster, were, during the spring and 

 summer months, of 1757, kept in continual alarm,! and 



* Gordon's Pa. 



•IMarch 29, 1757, the Indians made a breach at Hooky 

 Springs, where one man was killed and eleven taken prisoners. 

 April 2d, 1757, William McKinnie and his son were killed near 

 Chambers's fort. April 17th, Jeremiah Jack, near Potomac, 

 was taken captive, and two of his sons killed, and a man and 

 woman were drowned in the Potomac,, while endeavoring to 

 escape, April 23d, John Martin and William Blair were 



