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Mle^haney County, ss. ) 

 State of Pennsylvania. ^ 



Before me the subscriber, a justice of the peace in 

 and for said county, personally apf)eare(l John Gibson, 

 Esqnii-c, an associate Judge of same county, who Iteing 

 duly sworn deposeth ami saith that lie traded with the 

 Shawnese and other tribos of Indiai':S then settled on 

 the Siota in the year 1773, and in the beginning of the 

 year 1774, and that in the month of April of the same 

 year, he left the same Indian towns, and came to this 

 place, in order to procure some goods and provisions, 

 that he remained here only a few days, and then set out 

 in company with a certain Alexander Blaine and M. 

 Elliott l)y water to return to the towns on Siota, and 

 that one evening as tliev were driltino' in their Canoes 

 near the Long Reach on the Ohio, they were hailed by 

 a number of white men on the South West Shore, who 

 requested them to put ashore, as they liad disagreeable 

 news to inform them of; that we then landed on shore; 

 and found amongst the [)arty, a Major Angus M'Donald 

 from West Ciiester, a Doctor Woods from the same 

 place, and a party as they said of 150 men. We then 

 asked the jiews. Thev informed us that some of the 

 party who had been taken up, and improving lands near 

 the Big Kanliaway river, had seen another }iarty of 

 white men, who informed tliem that they and some 

 others had fell in with a party of Shawnese, who had 

 been hunting on the Soutfi W^est side of the Ohio, that 

 ihey had killed the whole of the Indian ]»arty, and that 

 the others had gone across the country to C'leat river 

 with the horses and plunder, the consecjuence of which 

 they appreliended would be an Indian war, and that 

 they were flying away. On making enquiry of them 

 when this murder should have hafjpened, we found that 

 it must have been some considerable time before we 

 left the Indian towns, and that there was not the small- 

 est foundation for the report, as there was not a single 

 man of tiie Shawnese, but what retm-ned from hunting 

 long before this should have happened. 



We then informed them that if they would agree to 



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