The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1879-05-24

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which the war coat and h,"ody bag was
! found To be arrested, which WAS arror,lingly
/ done; but that coming the next day To i'll
uuirc for il, the man of the house. where il
was deposited, answered that it was given
to the Indian again, and that he WAS told
by the Dutch that the Indians did threaten,
him us beingan Englishman for to kill him.
We learn from Ninccnts history of Della
ware that this man Peter Meyer had 4 quar-
rel about this time with Mr.. Le:lrs, Il Finish
| priest who lived in i settlement on the
Delaware river, not far from where Chester
now stands. lie had struck the reverend
| gentleman in the face and nutilatcd him i'm
| Il shameful manner. For this offence the
authorities 1T New .\m>tc had attempted
to bring him to trial. 1t also appears that
they had fined him for selling liquor to the
| Indians, and 10 doubt he was glad of the
| opportunity to vent his wrath upon them.
| by giving the foregoing information to the
| Mary landerS.
Robert GorSuch was then examined touch
ing the engagement with the Indians ut
dams came to his house on the llth of April
1861, some dressed in blue and some in red
match coats, who killed his wife and plum
dcred his house, and about four or five days
after came to his house again and killed
some five COWS and Il steer, and some hogs.
as he suppoSeth.
John Taylor said that, upon Easter eve,
i'll the afternoon, there came two Indians to
his house, but he not understanding their
language, pointed at them to beyone: he not
having hear, before of a murder committed
upon Robert Gorsuch'S wife, and they ac-
cordingly departed. The next day these
same Indians returned with seven more and
one woman, who, coming near his landing
shot off Il gun to give him notice, as he con-
sidered: whercupon he went To the landing
to them and they asked him for some to-
bacco, which Ii" did give them, and upon
sight of another canoe of Indians. bid them
hegone. One of Them understanding and
speaking a little English, upon which they
went away, and Steered, as he thought
toward Il plantation hard by, where two
DItlltltTS llNttl, TLlNdGtl custer ana
John Fouster: that John Foustcr coming
in a canoe toward the Indians, shot at the
said Indians and came Immediately away
to this informant'S house: whcrcupon the
said Indians shot three guns at the said
Fouster, and immediately went and plum
dercd his house, and came round about two
weeks and pllndcrcl his tobacco house,
where his goods then lay for want of room
in his dwelling house, to the value of one
thousand pounds of tobacco: that upon no.
tice given of this plumber, William Wig
well, John Foustcr and Edward Swanson
Went forth after the said Indians, to know
why they plundered the said tobacco house.
and coming up to them in the woods where
they We're sitting round a fire, they imme-
diately surrounded the said English and
discharged a volley of ten shots, killing the
said John FouStcr, and ut Il second vollcy
wounded William Wigwcll, nntwithStand-
ing which shot, they fought them three
hours and made their retreat good, since
which time the said Indians have killed
eleven head Of cattle, twenty head of hogs.
Demanding of the Indians who they were,
they answered they We're all Susquellan-
nauglIS, It's all Indians used to do that came
to his house.
Thomas Overton and William HALLS saith
that about the 18th of April last, Thomas
Sampson and Richard Hayes, seeing two
canoes with nine Delaware Bay Indians
coming down Bush river: watching their
canoes did discern that they Steered toward
their plantation, upon which the said Samp-
son and Richard Hayes came and brought
these intormant> news of their coming: So
upon that, they took to their boats and arms
alr"et the Indians, and inquired of them
whc'h"rt hy-"rc SuSquehannau.lS Yea or
no, and they anSwcfeoo: and whilst that
these infor:lantS were talkInc-iih one of
the said companies in one Of the canors,,,e |
other canoe with Indians went ashore: an,
as soon is they We're on til" shore. one u
tho inturnantS' dogs bit one of the said In
dams, and upon that the Indian turned him
about and Shot the dog and killed it, an,
Immediately another of the said Indian:
that WAS on the shore shot at these inform
ants and their company, and the bullet:
came through the boat; then the said in
fnrlnants and their company shot at tn,
| Indians that Were in the other cano. an,
| killed FIVE of thcm-that is all the Indian.
that We're in that canoe: and further these
| intormantS saith, that the Indians on the
shore did kill one of their company, called
John Spurnr, and further knowcth not.
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| TO BE CONTINUED.