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the aforesaid William Garner while on his Death Bed and
that she asked him said Garner whether he thought the afore-
said Women had any hand in Murdering of him, he answered
he believed they had not. The Deponent saith that three dif-
ferent times she put the aforesaid Question and received the
same Answer, And further saith not. her
Catharine X Burges
Cha^s County ss Taken 15^th day March 1766. Mark
Jn^o Dent.

Ordered that Pardon issue for Negro Sue, which issued ac-
cordingly, and that the further Consideration of Jack's Case be
put off until the next Meeting.

His Excellency is pleased to lay before this Board the fol-
lowing Letter and Deposition relating to the Murder of a
Mohock Indian
Philadelphia 11^th March 1766.
Sir
I lately received Information that one of the Six Nation
Indians returning from the Cherokee Country was Murdered
on the i I^th of January last on the Road between Fort Cumber-
land and Fort Bedford within this Province. I intended to
have issued a Proclamation offering a Reward for discovering
and apprehending the Murderer but finding by the Examina-
tion of Cap^t Lemuel Barritt who lives near the place where the
said Indian was found, that there is great Reason to believe
the murder was Committed by one Samuel Jacobs, who is said
to have fled into the back parts of Virginia or Maryland, I
think it most adviseable to defer my Proclamation till I have
first tried every other means in my Power to secure the
Offender.
I take the Liberty of enclosing you Cap^t Barritt's Deposition
and description of Jacobs' Person, at the same time requesting
you will cause Strict search to be made for him throughout
your Province, as you must be sensible of the ill Consequences
that will ensue if all necessary Steps are not pursued in order
to bring to Justice this Lawless Villain, as well to convince the
Indians of our good Intentions towards them, as to 'deter
others from the same Conduct, which if We cannot fall upon
some means of putting a Stop to, We may reasonably expect
to be again involved in the Miseries of another Indian War.
I shall make S^r William Johnson acquainted with this un-
happy affair and the Measures taken to give our Friends the
Six Nations all the Satisfaction in our Power, that he may
represent the matter in a proper light to them, so as to prevent

Lib. J. R.

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