Apology of the Paxton Volunteers - 12
Before me the Subscriber chief Burgess of the Borough aforesd personally came Thomas Moore, & made Oath on the holy Evangelist, that during his six years Slavery with the Indians at the Salt Lake & other Places, there were repeated Advices from the Inhabitants of Pennsylvania brought by strange Messenger Indians, & that the Indians, with whom he was Prisoner told him this Deponent, that those Carryers, who brought the News, were the Indians that lived Among the White People, who pretended to be their Friends, sometimes from Bethlehem and divers other places---& that there were frequent Dispatches brought there relating to the Motions of the Army of this Province
Sworn & subscribed before me by Thomas Moore
At Lancaster, Febary 27, 1764
J. Bickham
Lancaster County ss
Personally appeared before me one of his Majesties Justices of the Peace for sd. County, Alexander Stephen, & being qualified as the Law directs, saith that an Indian woman named Canayah Sally told the sd. Deponent, since the last War, that the Conestogoe Indians killed Jegrea an Indian man, because he would not go to War with the sd. Conestogoe Indians against the English; & that James Cottis told sd. Deponent since the last War, that he was one of three, that killed old James (or William) Hamilton on Sherman’s Creek, the Beginning of the last War. And farther this Deponent saith, that after the late War sd. James Cotties demanded of sd. Deponent a Canoe, which he had found, or pay in Lieu thereof, which Canoe the sd. Murderers had left, as Cottis said, at the time.
Sworn & subscribed before
Tho. Foster by Alexander Stephen
Lancaster County ss
Personally appeared before me one of his Majestie’s Justices of the Peace for sd. County Charles Cunningham, & being qualified as the Law directs, saith, that he the sd. Deponent heard an Indian named Joshua James
