The Plain Dealer, Numb. III - 14
Philadelphia City, ss. April 27th, 1764.
“LEONARD WEISER of Smithfield township, Northhampton county, husbandman, being duly sworn, did depose, declare, and say, That on the Thirty-first day of December, in the year One Thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty-five, a party of about Thirty Indians headed by the late noted Delaware Teedyuskung, invaded the said township, and having murdered this deponents father and a young lad, took him this deponent and his brother prisoners, and carried them to Diahoga, on Susquehanna, where this deponent continued in a state of servitude with one Samuel Evans, a Delaware Indian, one of the aforesaid party of Indians, for the space of about Eight months, at the end of which time he was delivered up at Easton. And the deponent further saith, that being this day at the at the barracks near the city, he saw among the Indians, (who are supported there at the public charge), and conversed with the said Samuel Evans, and with John Elisha, one Harris, another called Nathaniel, and a fifth of the name of David, all of whom this deponent is personally acquainted with, and knows to have been of the aforesaid party of thirty, and of divers other parties, who after he was taken prisoner as aforesaid, invaded the settlements, and returned with scalps.-----And this deponent further declares, he saw the aforesaid Nathaniel, or Nothaniel Elisha as he believes his name is, murder at the same time he was captivated as aforesaid, Hans Adams Heifs, then at work with him, and that the aforesaid party carried off Peter Heis, and Henry Heis, on the
