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BNL.756.021
30 Sep 1756:11,12 (2830) Postscript
Annapolis, (in Maryland;) Sept. 2. A certain John Row who
was on Friday the 20th of August taken prisoner by the party
of Indians that at that time made an incursion into this
province, being examined by Thomas Caton, a Virginia
magistrate, declares, that the evening after he was made a
prisoner, the party of Indians by whom he was taken, being
39 in number, carried him to Little Conococheague, where
they made fires, and had a war-dance, but seemed to be very
apprehensive of danger. The second day they went northward
to a place of rendezvous, as he conceives, for he saw them
go to a hollow tree that was near, and take thence a
quantity of ammunition and some provisions, but they did not
stay long there, being a good deal alarmed at the tracks of
a party of rangers, which, it seems, had just before passed
that way: Thence they removed to Tom's Run in the North-
Mountain, and spent their evening in dancing and shewing
scalps to each other, and triumphing over their prisoners,
of which they had taken ten beside himself. . . [9 lines]
He says they regularly went to prayers every night and
morning while he was with them, which was two days, and
seemed very devout, crossing themselves very frequently.
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