With great refpedl, I am, Dear Sir, Your molt obedient fervant, HARRY INNES.
Allegheney County, ff.
State of Pennfylvania.
Before me the subscriber, a justice of the peace in and for said county^ personally appeared John Gibson^ Esquire, an associate Judge of same coun- ty, 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 toprocure some goods andpro'uisions^ that he remained here only a few days^ and then set out in com^ pany with a certain Alexander Blaine and M.
Elliot by water to return to the towns on Siota, and that one CDcning as they ivere drifting in their Ca- noes near the Long Reach on the Ohio, they were hailed by a number of%)hite men on the South West Shore, %)ho requested them to put ashore, as they had disagreeable news to inform them of; that we then landed on shore; andfound amongst the party.