The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1876-07-20

informed hIm them that the Indians had
murdered Casper Gundrynan last Monday
evening; that he went Immediately to Bo-
sart's to consult what was best to be done !:
that they concluded it best for the neigh
bors to collect together in some one house:
that he returned and loaded his wagon
with his most valuable effects, which he
carried to Bosart's house, and as soon as he
had unloaded his wagon he drove to his
son-in-law's, Peter SCANS house, about
two miles and loaded as much of his eff
fects as the time and hurry would ad-
nit, and took them also to Bossarts where
nine families were retired that a great
number of the inhabitants were also retired
to the houses Of Conrad Bittenbender and
John Mcdowell; that Bosart's house is
seven miles from Fort Hamilton and twelve
from Fort Norris, that yesterday morning
about nine o'clock, the said Peter Soan
and Christian Klein, with his daughter,
about thirteen years Of age, went from
Bossart's house to the house of the said
Klein and then to SCANS house, to look
after the cattle, and to bring off more effects
that about half an hour after the above
three persons were gone from Bosart's
house a certain George Hartlieb, who also
fed with his family to Bosart's, and who
had been at his own house about mile
from Scans, returned to Bosarts and
reported that he had heard three guns
fired very quick one after another towards
SCANS place &c. That this morning nine
men armed themselves and went towards
SCANS place that when they came within
about three hundred yards of the house
they found the bodies of the said Soan and
Klein lying about 20 feet from each other,
killed and scalped but did not find Klein s
daughter.
June %, 1857, Maj Parsons wrote to
Gov. Denny, and enclosed the deposition of
George Ebert taken June Goth, from which
are the following extracts That on or
about the I'd day of May last he, with about
IS armed men went with two wagons from
| Plainfeld township, to assist the inhabi-
tants of Lower Smithfeld, who had few
| days before been attacked by the enemy,
Indians, and some of the neighborhood
murdered by the savages, to bring off some
of their best effects; that about noon of the
same day they came to the house of Conrad
| Bittenbender, to which divers of the neigh
| bors had fed. Here one of the wagons,
with about 10 men and himself, halted to
load their wagon with the poor peoples eff
fects; and the rest of the company with
the other wagon, went about mile further
to Philip Bozart's; That Conrad Bitten
bender, Peter Sheffer, John Nolf, Jacob
Roth, Michael Kiersfcr (Keiser), certain
Keins (Kintz), and one man more, whose
name he had forgotten, and himself, went
about miles into the woods, to seek the
neighbors horses, where they found 6, and
were returning with them to within half a
mile of Bittenbender's house, when they
were attacked by 10 French Indians, who
! fired upon them, and killed Bittenbender
Jacob Roth, and John Nolf, as he believed
for that he saw them fall, one dead, and
took Peter Sh8ffer, who received two flesh
shots, one in his arm and the other in his
shoulder, and him the said Ebert, prison
ers, that he received a shot. That the In
dians frequently talked French together
that they Immediately started off with then
prisoners that on the evening of the next
day they fell in with another company ot
about 81 Indians, who had Abraham Mil
Ter, with his mother, and Adam Smells
daughter prisoners. The Indians with theil
prisoners, marched in parties as far as Dla
hoga, and at that place the Indians separa
ted and about s, the foremost took hin
and Abraham Miller with them, and they
never saw any of the other prisoners after
wards that on their way on this side o
I Diahoga they saw Kleins daughter, whC
had been taken prisoner about week be
fore he was taken, and about days jour
ney beyond Diahoga, they come to some
French Indian cabins, where they saw an
other prisoner, girl about Is or 10 years
old, who said her name was CathariHe Yea
ger, and that her father was locksmitl
and lived at Allemengle; that she had beer
prisoner ever since Christmas that a
this place the Indians loosed him and Abra
ham Miller, whom they had bound every
night before; that finding themselves a
liberty, he and Abraham Miller made thei
escape in the night, and the next day came
to French Margaret's at Diahoga, having
been prisoners Q days; that they stayed
dDOuG II WcGhS Will Ilh'
she concealed them and supported them
That some French Indians came in search o
them and she told them it was not safe fol
them to stay any longer and advised then
to make the best of their way homewards
that while at Diahoga they were Informed
that the Indians had killed Abraham Mil
ler's mother, who was not able to trave
any further and SHELLS daughther who haC
received a wound in her left leg by fal
when they first took her prisoner but
heard nothing of Peter Shaeffer, that il
three days they arrived at Wyoming b,
water, as Margaret had advised them, tha
at Wyoming the friendly Indians directed
them the way to Fort Allen, but the,
missed their way and came the road to For
Hamilton where they arrived last Saturda.
a week abraham Miller, afterwards mar
ried daughter of John Mcdowell, a siste
of Col Stroud's wife. and owned and liveC