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12016-08-22T06:02:47-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650a72004(annotation)plain2016-08-29T15:20:38-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650aas her own, and performed towards it all the Duties of an affectionate Parent.
The Reader will, observe, that many of their Names are English. It is common with the Indians that have an Affection for the English, to give themselves, and their Children, the Names of such English Persons as they particularly esteem.
This little Society continued the Custom they had begun, when more numberous, of addressing every new Governor, and every Descendant of the first Proprietor, welcoming him to the Province, assuring him of their Fidelity, and praying a Continuance of that Favour and Protection they had hitherto experienced. They had accordingly sent up an Address of this Kind to our present Governor, on his Arrival; but the same was scarce delivered, when the unfortunate Catastrophe happened, which we are about to relate.
On Wednesday, the 15th of December, 1763, Fifty-seven Men, from some of our Frontier Townships, who had projected the Destruction of this little Commonwealth, came, all well mounted, and armed with Firelocks, Hangers and Hatchets, having travelled through the Country in the Night, to Conestogoe Manor. There they surrounded the small Village of Indian Huts, and just at Break of Day broke into them all at once. Only three Men, two Women, and a young Boy, were found at home, the rest being out among the neighbouring White People, some to see the Baskets, Brooms and Bowls they manufactured, and others on other Occasions. These
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12016-08-19T12:58:29-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650aA Narrative of the Late Massacres - 51A 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.2016-08-19T12:58:29-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650a
12016-08-19T12:58:35-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650aA Narrative of the Late Massacres (Inscribed: From James Pemberton to William Cobbett) - 51A 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.2016-08-19T12:58:35-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650a
