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John Peirce Notes, on a visit to Several Tribes of Indians, 1796

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In the Evening two of our friends, who went yesterday to the white Settlements, returned, and informed, that they have bought Oxen, a Cart and some other necessaries, and that the other Friend was gone to Brothertown, in Company with our friend Joshua Evans, whom they met with at fort Schuyler. They also inform of the fol-lowing melancholy Accident which happened last Evening at the aforesaid fort Schuyler: The House of one Jonston an Innkeeper, who had been