The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle

Extract of a letter from Shippensburg, in Pennsylvania, August 6. 1773.

"I received a letter, last night, from Mr. David Duncan, at the Lower Shawanese town, dated the 17th of the last month, advising me, that the trade in the woods seem to be in a very precarious and difficult situation: A body of Indians, of the Mingoe tribe, having murdered two of Capt. Thompson's people, and robbed them of a number of horses, at a little Mingoe town, below the Shawanese towns, as they were on their way to the mouth of Scioto, where they were to meet Capt. Thompson. There were four men with the horses. The two who escaped are with Mr. Duncan, at the Lower Town. Mr. Dean further informs me, that the same Mingoes have taken a canoe loaded with goods, supposed to be either Mr. Spear's or Mr. Joseph Lyndsey's; but it appears most likely to be the property of the latter, he intended to go up the Scioto, and the Canoe was taken on that Creek. Mr. Spear's canoe was to go by way of the Wabash, which is a very considerable distance lower down."