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the Shuan Indians at Bohemia, that the War Captain whose
Name is Messowan was with them, that He was seven Days
in going thither, stayed there about three Days and was Six
Days in returning, he further saith that he heard at the
Conoy Town the Seneca and Shuan Indians wanted to fight
with the English and the Indians, He likewise saith that at his
Return He found Panquash and Our Indians in the Swamp
and no strange Indians with them, that he stayed there about
a Week, and that he does not know the Reason why Our
Indians left their Towns and went to the Swamp, He being at
the Conoy Town at the Time
The Examination of Indian Pattasahook This Examinant
saith that about a Month before He was brought to this Town,
as he was going up to the Conoy Town with Joshua being
sent thither by Panquash to carry News to the Indians & to
see for some Peak that was lost which He heard the Shuan
Indians had found, he overtook twenty Indians at Bohemia
who had been at Chicacoan Town and that the War Captain
whose Name's Messowan was with them This Examinant
saith that the News he carryed up to the Indians was, that
what had been before concluded on between Panquash and
the Shuan Indians was knocked on the head for that Season,
and that they need not come down that he heard from the
Indians at the Conoy Town, that the Indians did design to
cutt off the English, that He was about 8 Days in going 4 1/2
Days there & 5 1/2 Days in coming down & upon his Return
found Panquash and the rest of the Indians in the Swamp
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who stayed three Days after his Return, and then all the
Indians left the Swamp.
The Examination of Indian Coursey This Examinant saith
that the Conversation between him Panquash and the Shuan
War Captain at the Chicacoan Town was about Peace but
Toby told him that the Shuan Captain said they would come
down in roasting Ear time to kill all the English, and that
Panquash was by at the same time they said so This Ex-
aminant further saith that Joshua and Pattasahook were sent
to the Conoy Town for some News and for some Money
which the Shuans had found, and the News they brought
down was, that the Seneca's would go to Philadelphia to make
Peace with the Governor there, and get Guns, and then they
would come down and make War, and that the French were
to assist them, that the Seneca's and French would come some-
time next Spring the French by Water in Ships and the Seneca's
upon the back Inhabitants and that they would destroy the
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