been three times to war ſince; but the Indians are not angry: only myſelf.”
July 21ſt, 1774.
With great reſpect, I am, Dear Sir,
Your moſt obedient ſervant,
HARRY INNES.
| Alleghany County, ſſ. | ||
| State of Pennſylvania. |
Before me the ſubſcriber, a juſtice of the peace in and for ſaid county, perſonally appeared John Gibſon, Eſquire, an aſſociate judge of the ſame county, who being duly ſworn depoſeth and ſaith that he traded with the Shawneſe and other tribes of Indians then ſettled on the Siota in the year 1773, and in the beginning of the year 1774, and that in the month of April of the ſame year, he left the ſame Indian towns, and came to this place, in order to procure ſome goods and proviſions, that he remained here only a few days, and then ſet out in company with a certain Alexander Blaine and M. Elliot by water to return to the towns on Siota, and that one evening as they were drifting in their canoes near the Long reach on the Ohio, they were hailed by a number of white men on the ſouth weſt ſhore, who requeſted them to put aſhore, as they had diſagreeable news to inform them of; that we then landed on ſhore; and found amongſt the party, a major Angus McDonald from Weſt-Cheſter, a Doctor Woods from ſame place, and a party as they ſaid of 150 men. We then aſked the news. They informed us that ſome of the party who had been taking up,
