264 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1742,

Lib. C. B.

that the Indians of those Parts were to joyn our own Indians
in a short time at Broad Creek in order to cut off the English
in Somerset and Dorset Counties
his
I^st July 1742 Sam X Isaac
taken by Henry Hooper Mark

The Examination of Indian Anthony This Exam^r saith
that some time in the beginning of June last Panquash told him
that he must go over to a Place called Winnasoccum where
he expected to meet all the Indians in order to hunt for five
or six Days This Examinant saith that he accordingly went

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over where he found a great Quantity of Indians in Company
with a War Captain of the Shawan Indians together with
Twenty more of that Nation, who continued dancing for Six
Nights together with Drums beating, firing of Guns &
Tommahawks in their hands, acting in a warlike Manner, the
Shawan Indians often saying the English Men were like
Children and knew not how to fight, during which time It was
agreed by Our own Indians and the Shawan Indians (who
were to be assisted by a great Number of the French, that
were to land on the Sea board side of Somerset County)
to cut off and destroy the English Inhabitants of Maryland
and Pensilvania; The Shawan Indians intending to come
down to Chicacoan in the Night time without being discov-
ered by the English and promised to be there this Moon, or in
Apple time, and this Examinant likewise saith that he verily
believes that they will come at One of the times appointed and
that he has understood by several Indians that there is a
logg'd house in a thick Swamp in which they have Guns
Powder Shot and poisoned Arrows; and that an Indian River
Doctor had prepared a great deal of Poison to destroy the
English and that he left the said Doctor boiling Poison at
Winnasoccum when he came away and further saith not
This Examinant further likewise saith that Indian Panquash
told this Examinant and all the other Indians that if they
made a Discovery of their af^d Design he would kill them
his
4^th July 1 742 Anthony +
taken before Henry Hooper Mark

The Examination of Robin Hood a Choptank Indian This

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Examinant saith that in May last to the Number of twenty
three of the Shawan Indians came down to Chicacoan Town
where they stay'd about Eleven Days, during which time the
War Captain of the Shawans made an Agreement with Pan-