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quash Dixon Coursey Captain John, Simon and the Indian
River Queen to cut off all the English Inhabitants in Maryland
and Pensilvania, and were promised by the said War Captain
to be assisted by the Seneca Indians in Conjunction with the
French, which French were to land on the Seaboard side of
Somerset County; and when the Shawan Indians went away,
Indian Joshua and Pattasahook went with them, who returned
again in about Six days in Company with another Shawan
Captain and twenty Shawan Indians more, and that two
Days after their Return all the Chicacone Indians went over
to a Place called Winnasoccum in Company with the Shawan
Indians where they gathered the several Nations of Our Indi-
ans together, and had their War Dances for Six Nights, with
their Arms, Faces and Part of their Heads painted, their
Tommahawks in their hands, with the firing of Guns and two
Drums beating, during which Time it was unanimously agreed
by our own Indians and the Shawan Indians to be assisted
with the Powers abovementioned, to destroy the English
(whom the Shawan Indians often said were no more than
Children) And further this Examinant saith that whilst he was
at Winnasoccum he was told by an Indian River Doctor that
he had prepared a great Quantity of Poison, with which he in-
tended to infect the Water in Order to destroy the English.
This Examinant likewise further saith that Sam Panquash
told him they had got a great Number of poisoned Arrows
pointed with Brass which were lodged in a little House upon
a small Island about three Miles within a very thick Swamp:
This Examinant further saith that the Shawan Captain last
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mentioned, and his Indians have been gone about 12 Days
and promised to return again within two Months from that
Time in Company of the Seneca Indians in Order to joyn the
French in cutting off the English as abovesaid and further this
Examinant saith not
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The within Examinant likewise further saith that the Shuan
Indians together with the Seneca Indians will travel only in
the Night time, and that in the Day time they will stop and lye
by in Swamps until they come down to Chicacoan Town in
Dorchester County and that then they were determined when
they came there to go in small Companies and Murder all the
English in the Night
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