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Copy Lemuel Barrett of Cumberland Valley in Cumber-
land County in the Province of Pensylvania, being Sworn on
the holy Evangelists of Almighty God Deposeth and Saith
That on the Twenty fourth day of January last past this De-
ponent being informed that the body of an Indian had been
found by one Edward Askin, near the high Road leading from
Fort Cumberland to Fort Bedford, he this Deponent Collected
together upwards of twenty of his Neighbours, among whom
was a certain Samuel Jacobs, and went with them to View and
bury the Body of the said Indian. That upon inspecting the
said Body, he found that the said Indian had been Shot with a
Bullet thro' his Body the Ball appearing to have entered in at
his Breast a little above the Pit of his Stomach, and to have
come out between his Shoulders, That the head was Scalp'd
and his Belly and Breast ripped open. That he this Deponent
was informed (after he first heard of the said Indian's being
Murdered) by his Servant Man Samuel Lyon that on the
eleventh day of the same Month of January he saw the said
Indian pass along the high Road and Conversed with him
about half a Mile from the place where his Body was found,
and that the aforesaid Samuel Jacobs had Cross'd the said
Road with a Gun in his hand a few Minutes after the Indian
had left the said Samuel Lyon, and further that within a
Quarter of an hour afterwards he the said Samuel Lyon had
heard the Report of a Gun about the place where the said
Indian was killed, from whence this Deponent suspected that
the said Samuel Jacobs had been concerned in the said Indian's
Murder. This Deponent further saith that he informed his
Neighbours as they stood round the said Indians Body that he
had heard it asserted, that if a Murderer touch'd the Dead
Body of the Person he had Slain, the Carcass tho' Lifeless
would bleed, and therefore he proposed to them to try the
Experiment and by that Method they would either acquit
themselves of all Suspicion of having killed the said Indian
or if any Person then present had really killed him he would be
discovered and his Guilt be made Evident or to that purpose.
That this proposal being generally agreed to, he this Deponent
and all the Rest of the Company (except the aforesaid Samuel
Jacobs) very ready touch'd alternately the said Indian's Body,
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