A Letter was likewise sent from his Lspp to Capt Brandt
and is as foll vizt
May 17th 1680:
Capt Brandt
Yours of yesterdays Date I recd: and doe herewith returne
yu an ordr of Councill in answer to what the Indians of Pas-
cattoway have lately requested; wch ordr you are upon sight
hereof Speedily to Communicate unto the Emperor & greate
men of Pascattoway, and if they accept of what is offered for
their Remooveall to the Nantecoke Indians, you are then as
speedily to Certifie downe to me such their acceptance, as
also when and where they shall desire to have Sloopes and
Shallops to Receive them, in ordr to the Wafteing them,
their Wives, Children, and provisions over the Bay; but
should their first Intentions of quitting their ffort be changed
into a Resolution of remaineing in and Defending their ffort,
then you are ordrd forthwith to signifie such their resolution,
that care may be taken to supply them with some small store
of powdr & shott wch they requested and you signified in your
last to me
Yor Loving ffriend C: B:
There was also at the same time a Letter recd: from
Thomas ffrancis being asfoll. viz.
An Arrundell County May
13th 1680:
May it please yor Lspp:
After my humble Service as my Duty Commands I prsume
to give your Lspp: Accot that on the 12th instant, the Indians com-
mitted a robbery at the head of South River in Anne Arrundell
County, in this manner Thomas Pattison an Inhabitant at the
said South River being at worke in his plantation, three
Indians appeared in ffriendly manner, one speakeing English
Complained they were hungry and asked for bread and
farther said they were Senneca Indians, the said Thomas
goeing to the house ward to give them bread, they made a
small noise, and presently their appeared Seaventeen more
painted, and the Indian wch spoke first in English for bread,
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spoke in the Pascattoway tongue to the sd Thomas and bid
him not be afraid, and after in English that they would not
hurt him, and soe marched to the house, the wch when Entred
they the sd Indians, plundered and spoiled all the said
ThomaSts houshold goods; his provision and weareing
apparell, stripped his Servants and Children naked carrying
away his gunns and all that was fitt for carriage spoileing
what they could not carry away soe that they have left him in
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