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ficed for their Satisfaction, but being asked whither they knew
One Krawacom they answered they did, that he was an Indian
belonging to the King of Checonesseck, a Towne upon the
Horekills, that last summer he came among them to trade,
and brought with him some Mannanoses wch he sold for
Peake and soe the last ffall went away since wch they have not
scene him nor hath he been since that time among them, they
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were then asked whither Krawacom did not belong to the
Wiccomeese, to wch they answered noe and desired the Gov-
ernor to send to the sd place of Checonesseck, and he would
then be satisfied that Krawacom did belong properly to
the sd Towne of Checonesseck, and not to Nanticoke or
Wiccomese. They further say that the Indian Prisoner
whom they had already deld up as the murdrer they did
looke upon as a Spiritt and a condemned pson, and conse-
quently in the Eye of the Law a Dead man, and therefore the
Emperor was much ashamed that such a One should be Cred-
itted as to what he said before himself that was soe great an
Emperor and one instance they insisted on was that the said
Prisoner had reported that the Nanticoke Indians had built a
ffort in the woods in a remote place from the Towne where
they lived, which if the English could find to be true that any
such thing was, they the great men now prsent would be
bound to loose their lives as a Sacrifice to the English. They
were then asked for what reason they had brought those two
Indian Prisoners to be delivered up, they replied that severall
Demands had by the English been made to have the two
murderrs ded: up more, that for their pts they cannot (after all
the care have taken) find any such, that they doe pceive the
English are angry, & doe resolve to have them, and have
often demanded their Delivery, wch they would as willingly
doe if they could be found, for that they would live at Peace,
and eate their bread with their wives and Children in quiett-
ness if possible, and that therefore those two men who came
prisoners with them did voluntarily and freely (without any
Compulsion) surrendr themselves a Sacrifice to the English in
satisfaction for the said murdr they being psons that had
never (to their knowledge) been guilty of any murdr or other
misdemeanor offered to the English, or guilty of any crime
among themselves.
Adjourne Till Afternoone.
Afternoone of the same Day The Councell mett againe.
When the Governor & Councell give the Indians to
undrstand that they have well considered of what they had
delivered in the morning, and that we should be very well
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