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on Susquehannah River, and there heard the Seneca and
Shuan Indians say that they in Conjunction with the French
which said French were to land on the Sea side had agreed
to kill the English Inhabitants of Maryland & Pensilvania and
other Parts of this Continent in Apple time this present year
or next Spring, and further this Examinant saith that he saw
the War Captain of the Shawan Nation of Indians at broad
Creek town on Nanticoke River about four Days after the
Indians had left Chicacoan Town and heard the said Captain
agree with Panquash, Dixon Coursey, & Simon (as before he
had been told) to joyn and kill the English, and that he still
believes they will come, and further this Examinant saith that
he heard the Nanticoke and Broad Creek Indians talking that
they had built a logged house in Pocomoke Swamp where
there was some Guns Powder Shot and poisoned Arrows and
further saith not
his
I^st July 1742 Peter C+ Monk
taken by Henry Trippe Mark

The Examination of Jemmey Cohonk This Examin^t saith
that some time in May last to the Number of 23 of the Shawan

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Indians came down to Chicacoan Town, and that he this Ex-
aminant often observed that Panquash and Dixon Coursey
held private Conferences with the War Captain of the Shawan
Indians, for two Nights together, and that within a few Days
after the Shawan Indians went away, Dixon Coursey went
over to a Place called Winnasoccum, and two Days after that
Panquash followed him to the same Place where they gathered
all the Nations of Our Indians together, and this Examinant
further saith that he has understood by several Indians since
they returned from Winnasoccum, that the whole Design of
their Meeting there was to join the Shawan Indians in destroy-
ing the English
James Cohonk
I^st July 1742
taken by Henry Hooper

The Examination of Sam Isaac a Chicacoan Indian This
Examinant saith that when the several Nations of Our Indi-
ans met at the Place called Winnasoccum, he heard Sam Pan-
quash, Dixon Coursey, Captain John, the Indian River Queen,
and a Colonel of the Queens, an Indian River Doctor and One
Simon of broad Creek say, that they had made an Agreement
with the Shawan Indians (who were to be assisted with the
Seneca Indians) to kill all the white people of Maryland, and

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