follow the expedition. The deponent refused having any hand in killing unoffending people. His com- panion. King, went with Great-house, voith divers others, some of whom had been collected at a consi- derable distance under an idea that Joshua Baker'' family was in dangerfrom the Indians^ as war had been commenced between Cresap and them already ;
that Edward King^ as well as others of the party ^ did not conceal from the deponent the most minute circumstances ofthis affair; they informed him that Great-house^ concealing his people^ went over to the Indian encampments and counted their number^ and found that they were too large a party to attack voith L H 1 his strength ; that he then requested Joshua Baker ivhen any of them came to his house, fwhich they had been in the habit ofJ to give them %vhat rum they could drink^ and to let him know when they were in a proper train y and that he would then fall on them; that accordingly they found se'veral men and women at Bakefs house ; that one of these women had cautioned Great-house^ when owr in the Indian camp, that he had better return home^ as the Indian men were drinking^ and that ha'oing heard of Cresap^s attack on their relations down the river, they were angry, and, in a friendly manner, told him to go home. Great-house, with his party, fell on them, and killed all except a little girl, which the deponent sa%v with the party after the slaughter : 4 that the Indians in the camp hearing the firing, manned two canoes, supposing their fritnds at Baker s to be attacked, as was supposed: the party under Great-house prevented their landing by a well directed fire, which did execution in the canoes that 'Edward King shewed the deponent one of the scalps.—The deponent further saith, that the settle- ments near the river broke up, and he the deponent immediately repaired to Catfish'^s camp, and lived some time with Mr. William Huston: that not long after his arrival, Cresap, with his party, returning from the Ohio, came to Mr. Huston's and tarried some time : that in various conversations with the 2 party, and in particular with a Mr, Smith, who had one arm only, he was told that the Indians were