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12016-08-22T07:25:54-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650a72002(annotation)plain2016-08-29T15:01:10-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650aYou are safer here than if you were at home. The Six Nations will not defile their own Land with the Blood of Men that come unarmed to ask for Peace. We shall send a Guard with you, to See you safe out of our Territories. So far you shall have Peace, but no farther. Get home to your own Country, and there take Care of yourselves, for there we intend to come and kill you.”
The Catawbas came away unhurt accordingly.
It is also well known, that just before the late War broke out, when our Traders first went among the Piankeshaw Indians, a Tribe of the Twightwees, they found the Principle of giving Protectionto Strangers in full Force; for the French coming with their Indians to the Piankeshow Town, and demanding that those Traders and their Goods should be delivered up;—the Piankeshaws replied, the English were come there upon their Invitation and they could not do so base a Thing. But the French insisting on It, the Piankeshaws took Arms in Defence of their Guests, and a Number of them, with their old Chief, lost their Lives in the Cause; the French at last prevailing by superior Force only.
I will not dissemble that numberless Stories have been raised and spread abroad, against not only the poor Wretches that are murdered, but also against the Hundred and Forty Christianized Indians, still threatned to be murdered; all which Stories are well known, by those who know the Indians best, to be pure Inventions, contrived by bad People, either to excite each other to join in
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12016-08-19T12:58:34-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650aA Narrative of the Late Massacres (Inscribed: From James Pemberton to William Cobbett) - 241A narrative of the late massacres, in Lancaster County, of a number of Indians, friends of this province, by persons unknown. : With some observations on the same.2016-08-19T12:58:34-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650a
12016-08-19T13:01:41-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650aA Narrative of the Late Massacres - 241A narrative of the late massacres, in Lancaster County, of a number of Indians, friends of this province, by persons unknown. With some observations on the same.2016-08-19T13:01:41-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650a
