354 HISTORY OF 



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

 with seven of his family. James Cotter demanded of 

 the deponent a canoe which the murderers had left, as 

 Cotter told him Avhen the murder was committed. 



Alexander Stephen.'^ 

 Thomas Foster, Justice. 



" Anne Mary Le Roy, of Lancaster, appeared before 

 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 miu-dered by the Indians, at Ma- 

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

 prisoners, and taken toKittaning; that strange Indians 

 visited them; the French told them they were Cones- 

 togoe Indians, and that Isaac vf as the only Indian true to 

 their interest ; and that the Conestogoe Indians, with the 

 exception of Isaac, were ready to lift the hatchet when 

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

 whether she had ever been at Kittaning ? 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 Avas well founded or not. " Bill Soc's own 

 mother declared he was good for nothing." 



The friendly Indians, it was fully believed by the 

 PaxtonianSj connived at, if not indirectly stimulated the 

 hostile ones, in their relentless attacks upon the frontier 

 settlers in 176:3. The groiuids for this suspicion vv^ere 

 sufficient] y founded, in the opinion of the eagle-eyed 

 Paxton and Donegal Rangers, to watch with a " keen 

 eye " the movements of both parties, friendly and 

 hostile Indians. In September, the Indians eluded their 

 Close, searching pursuit. The Paxton Boys, and their 



*Lar)caster IntelligeEcer k Journal. 



