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482 Provincial Court Proceedings, 1665. Liber F F ayding & assisting to the sd murther, att the time & in the place aforesd. Wittnesses Agatha Langworth Witt Caluert Elizabeth Brumley Lucy Good. Tho: Haylings, Bennett Marchegay/ J ures Returne Endorsd Billa Vera/ Agatha Langworth aged 50 yeares or thereabouts sworne on the 27th day of Septembr 1665 sayth, This Depont Lay sick on her Table on the 17th day of August last, & better by an hower & a half e of sunne when came ffower Indians & knock'd att the doare. The wench by name Lewis Good told this [p. 70] Depont That shee thought it had beene the Children But Cryed In dians & flung open the doore, wth tht this Depont turnd about, & made to the doore & fownd one of the 4 Indians by name Chotyke wthin the roome & the Dogge keeping a barking att him, hee made some blowes att itt, still Looking uppon this Depont, & made a back blowe att her wth a Tomahauke, but mist her whereuppon hee retreated out of the roome, Thinking (as this Depont supposeth) tht shee might shutt him in the roome. Then this Depont clapt to the doore, when shee did then see the other Indian by name Bennett, & now in cus tody wth Chotyke next to this Chotyke, & another called the old ffish erman alias Inuoyce, tht escaped after taken in custody: & likewise another Indian, wch was not knowne by this Depont was then like wise att this Deponts howse aft this prnt time. Then they went rownd about the howse two or three times, after this Depont had shutt her selfe in the howse. Then shee went to a window next to a neighbors of hers & hollowed & Cryed Indians, Indians. Wth tht the neighbors came, In wch interim this Depont heard her Children cry out saying, Good nindians, good nindians, After wch this Depont did againe see the foresd ffower Indians, & after that fownd Two of her children murthered. And further this Depont sayth not. Agatha Langworth/ Lewis Good aged 21 yeares or thereabouts sworne on the 27th day of Septembr 1665, sayth This Depont being in the howse of her mistresse Agatha Lang- worth on the 17th day of August last, att wch time her sd mistresse was ill & Lay uppon the Table, when there came to the doores ffower Indians who knockd att the doore when this Depont thought it had bene the Children, & opened the doore, & then cryed Indians, Where uppon her mistresse came of from the table (this Depont not shut ting the doore againe) & went to the doore, when one of the Indians, when one of the Indians by name Chotyke, now in custody was stryk ing att the dogge tht was barking att them, & struck one back blowe att this deponts mistresse, when hee did not misse of hitting her but by a small matter, whereuppon hee retreated backwards, & her mistresse shoote the doores uppon them, And then they lay striking upon the doore their Tomahauks. This Depont further declaring, tht be- |
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