262 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1742.

Lib. C. I

be about the last of this Moon, this Examinant further saith
that about ten Days after the Return of the Shawan Indians
from hence these Indians sent two of their Indians up to
Shawan in order to acquaint them not to come down and
further saith not
his
29 June 1742 Indian x Mulberry
taken before Cha Dickinson Mark

The Examination of Indian Dick, this Examinant saith that
he was told by an Indian Woman belonging to Locust Neck
Town that the Back Indians to the Number of twenty odd
came down in May last to Chicacoan Town in Order to agree
with those Indians to assist them in killing the English People
of this Province, and that these Indians did agree with them
so to do, and promised to come down in Apple time, this
Exam^t further saith that the Reason the Maryland Indians
came from Pocomoke Swamp was, because they understood
the English had heard their Design against them, and further
saith not
his
29 June 1742 Indian + Dick
taken before Cha. Dickinson Mark

The Examination of Jacob Pattasahook a Nanticoke Indian
this Examinant saith about a Month ago he was at the Conoy
town on Susquehannah River and was told by the Indians of
said Town that the Seneca and Totra Indians in Conjunction
and by the Advice of the French had agreed to cut off the
English Inhabitants in Pensilvania Maryland and other adja-
cent Parts of this Continent and the Indians in Somerset and
Dorset Counties, and to that End the Seneca Indians were
soon to go to Philadelphia to dispose of some part of their

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Lands for Arms and Ammunition, and having so done the
Seneca, Totra, and Other Indians were in roasting Ear and
Apple time to fall upon the Back Inhabitants and at the same
time the French who was to come by Sea, were to land on the
Sea board side of Somerset County in order to meet the said
Indians, and further this Examinant saith not
his
30 June 1742 Jacob X Pattasahook
certifyed by Henry Trippe Mark

The Examination of Peter Monk a Nanticoke Indian This
Examinant saith that he was told by Joshua and Pattasahook
two Nanticoke Indians that they were lately at Conoy Town