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age, and was buried in a place now called Carpenter's 

 grave-yard, about one mile from where he was born — 

 the burial ground was pointed out by his grand-mother, 

 Mary Ferrie, where she and several of her family were 

 buried.* After Abraham's death, his widow married 

 one Curgus or Circus — they moved up the Susque- 

 hanna, and I cannot tell what became of them after- 

 wards.''! 



This year, 1712 or 13, the Five Nations received into 

 their confederacy, the Tuscororas. 



We would ask the indulgent reader to follow us in an 

 apparent digression from the main narrative, while a 

 few relevant facts are adduced to show how the Tusca- 

 rora nation came to miite with the Five Nations. 



In 1712, the Tuscaroras, the Corees, with whom 

 Baron de Graffenried, Governor of the Palatines, in 

 North Carolina, mentioned in a preceding part of our 

 narrative, made a treaty in the town of Cor J and other 

 Indian tribes, in North Carolina, formed a conspiracy to 

 exterminate the English. To be secm-e themselves, the 

 chief town in the Tuscarora nation, was enclosed by 

 kind of stockades; within this enclosure, 1,200 bowmen, 

 of different tribes, met. Under the mask of friendship, 



*"Mary Ferrie vested in Trustees a piece of land near Para- 

 dise, as a burial place for the use of the settlement. It is 

 neatly walled and kept in good condition by the neighbors, 

 whose ancestors repose within its limits." — Redmond Conyng- 

 ham. 



flhavefoundacopy of a will of Abraham Dubois, dated Oct. 

 1st, 1731, among his grand-father, Joel Ferrie's papers, which 

 had been some time in possession of his son Isaac Ferree, 

 from which it appears that a person by the name of Roeloff 

 Ellsting, as spelt in that instrument, is recognized as a son-in- 

 law, married to his daughter Leah. 



IWilliams' N. C. I. 2S7. 



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