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GEORGIA GAZETTE..
Number 23.
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•AMERICA.
Jbm*pd’n t in Maryland, July 14.
HE have had repeated reports, that Col.
Thomas Crefap, with his family and
neighbours, are cut off by the Indians;
their plantations lie about three degrees
weft of Chcfapeak bay, in Frederick
county in Maryland.
IVtuiamjlnrgb, in Virginia, July 15.
An express arrived here last night from Winchester, with a
letter tohis Honour the Gbvernor, dated July nth, giving
m account, that all the inhabitants of Hatapfhire, intimi
dated by feme lkulking parties of Indians, who have mur
dered several families tn rcabo*lts, had left their houses and
plantations, anil had taken refuge in the little forts on the
iouth branch of that county, ana that many of the inhabi
tants of Frederick had followed their example, amounting
in all to 648 men, 538 women, and 1191 children. llis
Honour we hear has lent up orders to the commanding offi
cers, of the counties adjoining to draw out their militia, so
Chat it is hoped they will be awe to drive off those merciless
lavages, and let the inhabitants return to their fine planta
tions, which otherwise must be inevitably destroyed.
We arc informed, that two Indians have been taken with
in four miles of Winchester, who laid there had been 400
Indians fora fortnight past about the south branch ofFo
towmack, and waited there in expectation of being joined
by four times that number; they are apprehensive of a vific
from‘the Indians; Capt. Robert Rutherford ii gone out with
a party of eight men, to learn, if pofliblc, their disposition
and numbers. Indians have been seen on the Blue Ridge,
and Cel. Crcfap’a being cut off is told with frefti circum
stances. Those Indians who have appeared on the Ridge
Have done no mifehief, they are supposed to be a party sent
from the main body to reconnoitre the country before they
fell upon the back inhabitants, which it's imagined they
have put off for a few days that they might perpetrate their
Intentions upon the people in the time of their harvest.
From the face of circumfiances, the beginning of last war
was not so alarming or affcaing. What a fhockmg confi
de ration it is to fee the harvest fields abandoned, plantations
deserted, and the poor wretched inhabitants obliged to fly,
or be fealped infurprife! . .
Annapolis, July 2f, A gentleman in Virginia writes, m
his letter of the 18th, 44 I mire been at Lord Fairfax’s ftnee
I saw you, and only returned this day; while I was there,
we were alarmed every day with accounts of the Indians
being in that neighbourhood, which occafmned many of the
inhabitants to leave their plantations, and retire with what
effects they could carry into the mod convenient torts. Ihe
militia of the five frontier counties have been draughted and
lent up into Frederick and Hampshire, and many gentlemen
are gone out volunteers.”
. Philadelphia, July 21. A letter from Paxton, of the Bth,
fays, 44 Three Indians came down the river last night with
an account, that two nations, the Senecas and Cayoways,
lave declared war against the Engliih, and were joining the
Indians to weft ward j and that their accounts from the Ohio
arc, that they have destroyed all the forts there except Fort
Fitt, whiclr they exported to do in a little time, afterwards
to march in'a large body to the weft branch of Sufquehan
uah, there to come in a body of 900 men to attack Fot Au
gusta, which they likewise expert to reduce, and then to
march with that body down the country.”
July 28. A letter mentioning the distresses of the frontier
Inhabitants, fays, 44 That the Indians had set fire to houses,
barns, corn, hay, and in Ihort to every thing that was coni
buftile; so that'the whole country seemed to be in one gene
ral blaze; that the mifcrics and diltrclic* of the poor people
THURSDAY, September 8, 1763.
were really (hocking to humanity, and beyond the power
/ language to defcr.be; thatCariifte was become the b7r
-4,01 Angle inhabitant being beyond it j that every
ftaole and hovel in the town was crouded with miserable
refugees, who were reduced to a state of beggary and de
spair, their houses, cattle and harvest destroyed, and from
a plentiful, independent people, they were become real ob
jects of charity and commiseration * that it was mod difma*
‘hi*? tU ‘ Vkh ****** in WhoCi counteny ncc
might be difeovered a mixture ot grief, madnefe and de-
and so hear, now and then, the sigh. and groans of
men. the difconfokte lamentations of women, and the
(creams of children, who had loft their neartft and dearcll
relatives ; and that on'both fidet theSufquehannah, for f ome
miles, the woods were fifed with poor families and their
cattle, who make fires andjive like the fevages.”
A gentleman from Carlifle informs us, that in a letter
from Aucufta county in Virginia, of the 16th, it is said.
that the fettlemcnts of Green Briar and Jack fen's River in
that colony, were cut off by the Indians, a few of the inha
bitants only escaping.
A ru-Torl, Augujl 1. On Thursday last arrived the Al
bany poll, by whom we learn, that a congress was lately
held by Sir William Johnson at the German Flats, at whicli
were present the chiefs of a 1 the Hbcs or Six Nations, ex
cept the Sendees, who refufed to fend any. The others
brightened the chain of friendftiip, and promised to e\vc
the earlicll intelligence of the enemy Indians, and have
likewise promised to fend fome of their chief men amoogft
the .oreign Indian®, in order to bring about a peace between
them and us; Thar, agreeable to their firft promise of in
telligence, juft* after the cowgrefs broke op, Sir William
Johnloa was acquainted of c number of enemy Indians
marching ag.vinft the German Fla*s, when He immediate/
ordered up all the militia <‘n the Mohawk country to tho
support of that fettfement and the frontiers, and had Uke
wiJe fentdown < rder* to Col. Vandenhayden at Albany to
march with five of the rnoft compleat companies of miftti i
in and about that city to Sche ectady, for the support and
defence of that part of the country and the Mohawks river,
there to remain till the commanding officer received further
orders from him, ordering the Colonel, at ;he fame time,
to replace those five companies by as many others from the
lower or moft did int parts of the county.
We hear that the detachment of the 17 th regimcnt.whidi
marched from Albany the and of June to aflitl at d'Etroit,
werefafe arrived at Niagara, but that they had met with a
feirmifti, in which it’s (aid they had the advantage greatly.
Vfa lit.lt Ip bid, Auguj} 4. On Sunday last sermons were
preached in moil of the congregations of this city, in favour
of* the distressed back inhabitants, and collections arc uow
making for them from home to house. *
They write from Carlillc, of July 30th, that on the asth
there were in Shippcn (burgh 1383 of our poor diftre (Ted buck
inhabitants, viz. 300 men, and 73S children,
many of whom were obliged to lie in barns, (tables, cellars,
and under old leaky (beds, the d*c ling-houses being all
crowded.
From Fort Bedford we learn, that Col. Bouquet, with the
army under his command, were well there the 27111 ult.
having met with no inierruption from enemy, and thai
he was to proceed on his march the next day; that no mil
chief had been done in that neighbourhood for three weeks,
and that the number in all killed thereabouts is 13 ; but they
had received advice there from Fort Cumberland, that on
Sunday the 24th of last month, as a number of people weru
aflcmhled at a place of worlhip, at the Calf Failure, in Au
gull a county, Virginia, they were attacked by a party of
Indians, who killed 20 or upwards of them.
