a Major Angus M^ Donald from West Chester, a Doctor Woods from same place, and a party as they said of \50 men. We then asked the news.
They informed us that some of the party who had been taken up^ and improving lands near the Big Kanhawa river, had seen another party of white men, who informed them that they and some others had fell in with a party of Shawnese, who had beeti hunting on the South West side of the Ohio^ that they had killed the whole of the Indian party ^ and that the others had gone across the country to Cheat river with the horses and plunder, the consequence of which they apprehended would he an Indian war, and that they were flying away. On making enquiry of them ivhcn this murder should have happened^ we found that it must have been some considerable time before we left the Indian towns, and that there was not the smallest foundation for the report, as there was not a single man of the Shawnese, but what returned from hunting long before this should have happened.
We then informed them that if they would agree to reraain at the place %ve then were, one of us would go to Hock Hockufjg river with some of their party, where we should flnd some of our people making Canoes^ and that if %ve did not find them there, we might conclude that every thing was not right. Doctor Wood and another person then prO' posed going with me ; the rest of the party seemed to agree., but said they woidd send and consult cap- C I? ] tain Cresap who was about two miles from that place. They sent offfor him^ and during the greatest part of the night they behaved in the most disor- derly manner^ threateriing to kill us, and saying the damned traders ivere worse than the Indians and ought to be killed. In the morning captain Michael Cresap came to the camp. Ithen gave him the information as above related. They then met in