260 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1 742.

Lib. C. B.

His Excellency is pleased to lay before this Board the
several Examinations following

The Examination of Jemmy Smalhommoney One of the
Atchawamp Indians of Great Choptank this 25^th day of June
1742 This Examinant saith that about the middle of May
last there was an Agreem^t made between some Indians that
came from Shawan, being 23 in Number, and the several

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Nations of Our own Indians to rise and cut off the English,
and that Two of Our Indians went up with them in order to
know the time, w^ch was agreed on to be this Moon, and to be
assisted with 500 of the Shawan & Northern Indians, and
about the same time the French with the Assistance of other
Indians were to attack the back Inhabitants of Maryland and
Pensilvania This Examinant further saith that the several
Nations of Our Indians have built a logg'd house about 20
feet long and 15 feet wide in Pocomoke Swamp for a Reposi-
tory to secure their Arms and Ammunition, and that they now
in the said house have several Guns with a good deal of
Ammunition and a large Quantity of poisoned Arrows pointed
with Brass, and that they intended to begin the Attack in
Somerset and Dorset at several Places in one and the same
Night and when they had cut off the English in them two
Counties to extend their Conquest upwards till they had
joyned the other Indians and the French. This Deponent
further saith the said Indians intended to destroy Man Woman
and Child as far as they extended their Conquest
his
Jemmy C Smalhommony
Mark
taken the Day & Year above
written by me
Henry Hooper

The Examination of Jemmy Pasimmons a Choptank Indian
This Examinant saith that about the middle of May last 23 of
the Shawan Indians came down to Chicacoan Town to treat
with Our Indians in Somerset and Dorchester Counties about
fighting with the English, which was agreed on before the
Shawan Indians went back again and Two of the Chicacoan
Indians went up with them to know the time when to begin
the Attack, which was concluded to be some time this Moon
in the Night and to destroy Man Woman and Child. This
Examin' saith the Indians built a Fort or logg'd house about
Two Miles within Pocomoke Swamp upon a small Island,
where this Exam^t was told by some of the Broad Creek Indians