Year: 1869

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four days and that by that time they might
be at the head of Potapsico River, to which
Major Truman returned that he had good
Horses and they were good footmen and
might soon overtake them and the Indians
replied they would, and the Deponent
further saith that in the morning following,
the Susquehannah great men being at the
place Of meeting before the Marylanders
taxed again by the Virginians more highly
of the injuries done by them in Maryland
and Virginia and they utterly denied the
same, and thereupon this Deponent was
commanded to declare to them that they
should be Bound, and this Deponent saith
further that there was an old paper and y
meddali showed by the said Indians with q
black and yellow Ribbond thereto, and that
the said Indians did say the first day in the
evening thereof that the same was pledge
of peace given and left with them by the
former Governors as a token of amity and
Friendship as long as the sun and moon
should last, and this Deponent saith to the
best of his remembrance all the Virginia
officers were present when the Indians were
Bound, and this Deponent that the first
night of meeting with the Susquehannahs
he was ordered to declare to them that
Major Truman did believe the Senecaes had
done the mischief and not they, and that
he was well satisfied therein.


On Saturday, May the Goth, 1876.


The House mett-present as yesterday.


Touching the murder of the Susquehan-
nah Indians, Capt. John Allen being sworn
and examined saith that about the 25th or
Goth day of September on Sunday morning
the Maryland Forces appeared before the
Fort under the command of Major Truman,
who sending Hugh French and another to
the Fort, there came out two or three of
the Indians and more afterward to the
number of thirty or forty, and the Major
examined them concerning the mischief
that was done to Mr.. Hanson and others,
and if they knew what Indians they were,
and they told them it was the Senecaes,
During which discourse between the Major
and them, came over Colonel Washington,
Colonel Mason and Major Adderton, and
they likewise taxed them with the murders
done on their side by them but they made
the same reply as to Maj. Truman that it
was none of them, so when they saw that
they could get nothing or. Of them, then
they made it appear that three of the said
Susquehannah Indians were they that did
the murders on the other side. On Monday
morning early, the Major commanded Mr..
Coad and two or three ranks of men where
of himself was one, to go to the House of
Mr.. Randolph Hanson to see if the Indians
had plundered it, and if they found any
ammunition, to bring it away, which ac-
to the Fort, the Deponent saw six Indians
guarded by the Marylanders and Virgin
ians, and the Major with the Virginia
officers sitting upon tree some distance
from them, and after some while they all
rose, and came toward the Indians and
caused them to be bound, and after some
time they talked again, and the Virginia
officerswould have knocked them Oh the
head in the place presently and particularly
Col. Washington said what should we keep
them any longer let us knock them on the
head, we shall get the Fort to-day-but the
Deponent saith the Major would not admit
of it, but was overswayed by the Virginia
officers, and after further discourse the said
Indians were carried forth from the place
where they were bound and they knocked
them on the head.


ITO be continued next week.