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lately killed by a fall from of his Horse & said to dye without
Heir
Directions to be sent to the Emperor of Pascattoway &
other Indian Kings our Friends & concerning their Limits
assigned them beyond which they may not Travail
Upon Motion made touching the Duty & Business of the
Rangers appointed upon the Frontiers
Ordered that upon any Discovery of any Foreign Indians,
they endeavour by all means to speak with them & Enquire
of them their Nation Business &c^a & give speedy advice thereof
by all opportunitys

Liber K.

Robert Drury of Caecil County called in & Examined touch-
ing his Deposition taken before M^r Charles Iames & another
before Coll Herman which in some Particulars seem to Differ
& contradict each other, he alledges that the one was taken
before he saw the Frenchman & then he did only fancy or
suppose he might be Mons^r Casteene according to description,
but the other was taken after sight of him & he knew him not
to be Casteene whom he knows very well that he had been
Informed from a New England man named Thompson that
this French man is named or Called Martin Shortive a Mate
or Associate with the said Casteene further he sayeth that the
Indian Woman he saw & did mention in his Deposition is to
the best of his knowledge Mons^r Casteenes Wife, & a French
Minister in Cecil County told him so, & likewise he further
saith that Coll^o Herman Informed him that the said Minister
told him that those Indians were Southern Indians, that he
had discoursed them & knew them to be such that the s^d
Frenchman did formerly live at a place called Asopris be-
tween Albany & Cannida & does verily believe him by his
Behaviour & Fickleness in Shifting & removing his Quarters
&c^a to be a Feather of the same Bird with those Indians
Coll^o Casparus Herman & Iacob Young Examined do Say
that the Susquhannoh Indians now brought down declares
that he knows those other Indians at the head of the Bay to
Come from the Southward & are called the Stabbernowles &
that Generally all the Indians in their parts know them to be
the same
The Frenchman & the Indians are called in (viz^t) one Sus-
quehannoh & another a King of the Southern Indians
Interp: Demand of the Susquehannoh Indians how long the
French man hath been among them
Susq Ind: he says that when those Strange Indians went
away from the Twitteway Indians to the Northward, then this

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Frenchman came to them, that they were two Years Travel-
ling towards the Southward before they found a Convenient
Place of Sitting down & there they Lived three Years, The

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