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supply of venison and fish which the Indians killed by the way An unfortunate circumstance happened among a company of Indians that was lately hunting on the waters of Beaver and had pitched this tent near a white mans house who kept Whisky to sell which occasioned some difference between the White Man and one of the Indians the White at length got other ruffians to assist him in taking the lives of the Indians who were not aprised of their intentions, in order to prosecute their horrid plan they went to the Indians camp with Guns and imediately shot one of them dead on the spot another seeing what was done immediately attem-pted to make his escape with a child under each arm but was followed by a ball which wenet thro' his breast and thro' the shoul-der of one of the Children and the wrist of the other; one of the murderers is now secured in Pittsburgh in order for tryal- 1801 1 mo 25th About this time considerable uneasyness arose in the minds of some of the Indians from being informed by a