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the head of a thousand other Indians. I asked the fellows
names; & they tould me, and that they lived by the Indian
Towne, and desired me withall to make hast to Major Combes,
for tht Sweatnam was gone to tell him the story. The next
day I went to Combes's, where meeting his wife att the door,
she imediately cryed out; O Lord! Coll: I was always glad to
see you, but now am ten times gladder than ever I was;
why ? says I, why, says she there's a parcell of lying devills
would persuade the people that you were att the Indian Towne
last Saturday, butt that I tould 'em you were a Thursday att
our house, they would all come to your house. My husband's
gone to the Indian Towne to know the certainty. Well, sayes
I, I'le stay till he comes back, and he sha'nt be hanged for
your sake; nay gad, sayes she, if I knew this would have
excused him, I had not spoke a word. I stay'd till they came
back, and tould me that the fellows said they were tould so by
an Indian, and the Indian being questioned said, he heard it
from two of the Nanticoke Indians, and so itt was put of from
one to t'other till itt was lost, and they all say now (being
deceived so many times by these sham reports) that if I should
really deal with the Indians against the Protestants (which God
forbid I should be so wicked) they would never believe itt,
yett those damned malitious stories was in a fair way to pull
my house downe about my ears; and which has really turned
your Lordship's Government out of the Province; for they
doe not pretend to meddle with your Lordship's title to itt.
Coll: Darnall and Major Sewall wont come so well off about
their treaties with the Northern Indians, altho' there is as much
truth in one as t'other.
Last Saturday Jack Llewellin came up to my house, and
gives me this brief account of the Assembly The first thing
they did (after they voted themselves a full house, tho' there
were ten of the forty two absent, vizt Anarundell, Somersett,
and two of Cecill, but Somersett came over the last day, and
excused their delay, saying, they heard all things were done
in your Lordship's name, but indeed they intended to own no
other power but their Majesties which excuse was readyly
accepted of nemine contradicente. Little Jenkins was chief,
whom your Lordship may remember, and I hope will. They
fixed upon the State house Doore a prohibition that no Papist
should come into the citty dureing the Assembly. The rest
of the transactions your Lordship will see in the papers, which
Jack Llewellin has promised to give to my man who's goeing
down with him; Onely I must tell your Lordship that the
Committee of Secrecy appointed for the discovery of Coll:
Darnalls and Major Sewall's dealing with the Northern Indians
is kept on foot still; It's composed of Blacstone, Jowles, Gil-
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