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prevented this assassination, or to have arrested the perpetrators. Captain 

 Robinson, with a company of highlanders, on their way from Pittsburg, 

 being then at Lancaster, put himself in the way to receive the com- 

 mands of the civil authority, which made no efibrt to use the force thus 

 offered it." 



The foregoing account, we believe, is substantially accurate, but in 

 order that the reader may be enabled to form an independent opinion, we 

 subjoin the documentary evidence. 



Postscript to a letter from John Hay, Esqr., Sheriff of Lancaster County , 

 to the Governor: 



" December 27th, 1763, P. M. 



"Honoured Sir: Since writing the above, the poor Indians whom we 

 imagined were placed in safety are destroyed. A number of Persons to 

 the amount (by their appearance), of fifty or sixty, armed with Eifies, 

 Tomahawks, &c., suddenly, about two o'clock, rushed into the Town and 

 immediately repaired to the Work House where the Indians were con- 

 fined, and notwithstanding all opposition of myself and the Coroner, with 

 many others, broke open the Work House, and have killed all the Indi- 

 ans there, being the fourteen mentioned in the List to have survived the 

 former affair at their Town. After which they in a body left the Town 

 without offering any insults to the inhabitants, and without putting it in 

 the power of any one to take or molest any of them without danger of life 

 to the Person attempting it ; of which both myself and the Coroner by 

 our opposition were in great danger. 



"I have since the above affair taken from Messrs. Miller & Beatty the 

 above mentioned Papers and Belts of Wampum, which I shall keep till 

 I have orders from your Honour, and any thing further that I can find 

 belonging to the Indians, shall be properly taken care of. 



" As it is rumored that the people with a superior force intend an attack 

 on the Province Island, with a view to destroy the Indians there, I think 

 proper to mention it to your Honour, and shall do all in my power not 

 only to apprehend the offenders but to preserve the Peace of the County. 



"I beg your Honours directions, which I shall endeavour ])unctually 

 to observe, being 



"Your Honours Most Obed't Humble Serv't, 



"John Hay. 



" To the Hou'ble JOHN PENN, Esqr., Governor of the Province of 

 Pennsylvania, &;c." 

 •List of the Indians killed at the Indian Town in Conestogoe Manor: 



Their Indian Names: 



Sheehays, Sheehays, 



George, Wa-a-shen, 



Harry, Tee-Kau-ley, 



