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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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