Assembly Proceedings, May — June 1676. 483

afterwards To the Number of Thirty or forty and the Majo^r
examined them Concerning the mischeife th^t was done to M^r
Hanson and others and if they knew what Jndians they were,
and they told them it was the Seneca's dureing which discourse
between the Majo^r and them Came over Coll Wasshington Coft
Mason and Majo^r Alderton and they likewise Taxed them with
the Murders clone on theire Side by them but they made the
same reply as To Majo^r Truman that it was none of them soe
when they found they Could get nothing out of them Then
they made it appeare th^t 3 of the Said Susquehannough Jndians
were they that did the Murders on the other Side, On Munday
morning early the Majo^r Comanded M^r Cood and two or three
Rankes of men Whereof himself was one To goe to the house
of M^r Randolph Hanson to se if the Jndians had plundered it
and if they found any amunition to bring it away which accord-
ingly they did and after Retorne back to the forte the Depon^t
Saw Six Indians guarded with the Mary Landers & Virginians
and the Majo^r with the Virginia Offic^rs Sitting upon a Tree
Some distance from them and after Some While they all Rose
and came Towards The Jndians and Caused them to be Bound,
And after Some time they talked againe and the Virginia
Offic^rs would have knocked them on the head in the place
presently & perticularly Collon^ll Wasshington Said what Should
we keep them any longer let vs knock them on the head we
shall get the Forte to day, But the Depon^t Saith th^ttthe majo^r
would not admit of it but was over swayed by the Virgi^a
Officers and after further discourse the s^d Indians wer carryed
forth from the place where they were bound & they knocked
them on the head

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Coll Sam" Chew and Coll Jesse Wharton [Sent] to desire
the Lower howse to acquaint this [house] Whether they have
drawne up a[ny thing by] way of Impeachm^t of Majo^r Thorn [as
Truman] and th^t they Would please to Signifie [the Same] to
this house by a Member of th[eir own] House
Signed &c

Read in this house an Act Re[latin]g to [the]
Once Read Seizure of Tobaccoe by the Sheriffe and Ordered to
[be] Read the 2d Time on Munday Morning

Read in this house an Act for security of Merchants
Read once Others Tobaccoe after they have receaved it and
ordered to be read the Second time on Munday morning

Lower house This house having things of a very high Nature
May 20 ag^t M^r Charles James, humbly desires his Lo^pp and
Upper house th^t the person of the Said Iames may
be Secured and th^t if the Upper house have any thing to
Comunicate to this house in relacon to any Misdemeano^rs of

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