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Number went to Oneida to give notice, and request a gene-ral Council next Day: This Evening received an Account of the fourth Murder committed amongst these peo-ple within these few months past; all of which are sup-posed to have been occasioned by the Use of Spirituous Li-quors; One was of the Tuscoro-ra’s in the 11th. mo. last, One of the Stockbridge’s not long af-ter, one of the Oneida’s in the 6th. mo last; and the lastother of the Cayuga’s a few Days since; Three of these Cases in the very neighbourhood where