The New Hampshire Gazette

Charles-Town, (in South-Carolina) July 14.

Monday arrived an Express from the Settlements in the Forks of Broad River, with an Account, that on the 22d ult. the Bodies of two Hunters, named Beeks and Trammel, were found cruelly murdered, about a Mile distant from each other: They appeared to have been killed some Days; the People there were much terrified. and perswaded themselves that the Cherokees were the Authors of this Mischief; but the Persons murdered were not scalped, nor were any Indian Tokens found near the Bodies.

Our last Letters from Cape-Fear dated the 6th Instant say, "That on the 1st Col. Harris arrived there Express from the back Settlements, to acquaint Governor Dobbs, that two or three Days before he left them, a Man belonging to a Scouting Party that had been sent out upon the first Mischief done by the Indians in those Parts. as he was looking for his Horse, was surrounded, kill'd and scalped by three Indians: and that Lads had been missing three Days, supposed to have been taken and carried off by the same Indians: That the back Settlers had therefore mostly quitted their Habitations, and taken Shelter in Fort-Dobbs: while others were endeavouring to discover the Enemy. And that the Catawbas insinuated these Outrages were committed by Shawanese: but it was the Opinion of Col. Harris, and the rest of the white People, the Murderers were some of the Middle-Towns Cherokees. That Governor Dobbs had thereupon ordered two Detachments up for the Protection of the Western Frontiers, one of 30 Men from Capt. Bailey's Company from Occacock, and one of the same Number of Men from Fort John-ston, all to be under the Command of Major Waddel, who had sent six Swivel Guns and Ammunition before him as far as there was Water-Carriage, and marched himself the 2d Instant; and on his Arrival with this Force on the Western Frontiers, it was hoped the Inhabitants would return to their Settlements."