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Ireinain at tlie place we then were, one of iis would go 

 to Hock Fiockung river with some of their party, where 

 we should find souie of our people uiakini:^ Cances, and 

 that if we did not find theni there, we might conchide 

 that everything was not right. Doctor Wood and an- 

 other person tlien f)roj)Osed going witli me ; the rest of 

 the party seeujcd to agree, hut said tiiey woukl send 

 and consult captain Cresap wlio was al)out two miles 

 from that phice. They sent off for liim, and during the 

 greatest part of the night tliey behaved in the most dis- 

 orderly manner, threateiiing to kill us, and saying the 

 damned traders were worse than tiie Indians and ought 

 to be killed. In the morning Ca[)tain iMichael Cresap 

 came to the camp. I then gave him the information as 

 above related. They th<Mi met in Council, and after an 

 lionr or more cai)tain Cresap returned to me, and in- 

 formed that he could not prevail on them to adopt the 

 pro[)osal 1 bad n)ade to them, that as he had a great 

 regard for Captain R. Callender, a brother in law of 

 mine with whouj I was connected in trade, he advised 

 me by no means to think of proceeding any further, as 

 he was convinced the present party would fall on and 

 kill every Indian they met on the river, that for bis part 

 he should not coiitintie with tliem, but go right across 

 the country to lle<l-Stone to avoid the consequences. 

 That we then proceeded to Hocking and went uj) the 

 same to the canoe place where we found our people at 

 work, and after some days we proceeded to the towns 

 on Siota by land. On our arrival there, we Jicard of 

 the different murders conjrnitted by the i)arty on their 

 Way up the Ohio. 



This Defjonent further saith that in the year 1774, 

 he accompanied Lord Dunmore on the expedition 

 a"^ainst the Shawnese and other Indians on the Siota, 

 that on their arrival within J5 miles of the towns, they 

 were met by a flag, and a white man of the name of 

 Elliott, who informed Lord DunrnOre that the Chiefs of 

 the Shawnese had sent to request bis Lordship to halt 

 bis army and send in some person, wbo understood 

 ■their language ; that this Deponent, at the request of 



