Apology of the Paxton Volunteers - 13
Sworn and subscribed before by Charles Cunningham
Thoss. Foster
Lancaster County ss
Personally appeared before me one of his Majesty’s Justices of the Peace for sd. County, Robert Armstrong, & being qualified as the Law directs saith as follows, Viz. an Indian named Seahaes with several others lived near my House in the Year 1762; some of them were so impudent to say, that they had been at War with the White People & would soon be at War again, particularly one Isaac, who called Seahaes his Uncle. In the Year 1762 as the Indians were coming down to the Treaty, they happened to stay at my House in Halifax; a Man whose Name as near as I can remember was William Philips & his Wife, being both Prisoners, told me they would be qualified, that the Indians held two Councils, & agreed that they would go to Philadelphia & get what they could, & so return & cut off the back Settlements. On their Return the sd. Indians stayed four Days about my Place & proved very insolent, took about six acres of Corn, killed several Hoggs, & took teh Fruit of about 150 bearing Trees, and farther saith not
Sworn before Thoss. Foster,
and signed by Robert Armstrong
N.B. Seahaes & Isaac were Conestogoe Indians.---
Lancaster County ss
Before me the Subscriber one of his Majesty’s Justices of the Peace in & for the County of Lancaster, personally appeared John Hambright of the Borough of Lancaster, who being duely sworn on the holy Evangelists dothe depone & say that about August in the year 1757, he this Deponent being an Officer in the Pay & service of the Province of Pennsylvania was sent with a Party from Fort Augusta to Hunters for Provisions for that Garison; that on His way down he halted under Cover of the Bank of the River Sesquehannah, to rest & refresh his Men at Mackee’s old Place, having a Centry fixed on the Bank behind a Tree to prevent a Surprize; that the Centry informed after some Time that there were Indians coming up the Road, upon which this Deponent crawled up the Bank, & discovered two Indians, one of whom he knew to be Bill Sock,
