Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

Intelligence from the Western Country.

Published by order of Congress.

Extract of a letter from Captain T. Hutchins, dated Camp, at the Junction of Wheeling Rivulet, and the Ohio, October 12, 1786, To his Excellency the President of Congress.

"The last letter I had the honour of writing to your Excellency, was dated the 13th of September, eleven o'clock at night. I am now to inform your Excellency that in the afternoon of the 18th of the same month, when I had progressed almost 43 miles, as I was superintending surveying the eighth range, I received from Major Hamtramack, by express, the intelligence respecting the hostile intentions of the Indians, contained in the enclosed papers, No. 1 and 2."

WESTMORELAND County, Pa.

THE deposition of George Brickell, of the county aforesaid, taken the 13th of September, 1786--deposeth and saith, that he left Ottaway River, about 20 miles below the Lower Sandusky, the 2d of this instant, September; that there were 1700 Indian warriors assembled at the Shawanoes towns, and that their number in a short time would be 2000; that their intentions were to strike first the Wheeling settlement, and lower down the Ohio; that all the nations were joined, and held a treaty on the 5th at Lower Sandusky, which was early in the morning, and lasted till after dark: that they had lately brought into the Shawanoes towns 13 or 14 scalps and four prisoners, two of whom were women, whom the Indians burnt before the men's faces; the men were to share the same fate in a few days: that the women's names were Moore, one the wife of a Captain Moore, the other her daughter; that Samuel Bealer, who had this summer removed to the Indian country from Wheeling settlement, and his family, were all killed; that a Captain Caldwell read his papers among the Indians, particularly land warrants, as he told this deponent;--that this deponent believes from these and other circumstances, and from the information given him by every person in that country, the whole of the Indian nations are determined to strike in the fall, when they get their corn secured, excepting the Cornplanter, who has refused to join them as yet; that there has been a reinforcement of troops at Detroit this fall, in three vessels, but does not know the number; that one Williams, a half-blooded Indian, told this deponent and the others with him, that if the Indians knew they were informed of what was going on, they would be killed before they got home; and further this deponent saith not.

(Signed) George Brickell.

Sworn and subscribed before George Wallace.

THOMAS GIRTY, of Pitt township, who was in company with the before mentioned George Brickell, deposeth and saith, that the before mentioned Williams told him, that the Indians were going to war; that Williams had this information from one Abraham Kuhn, a white man, who is married to an Indian woman, by which means he is made a Wyandot chief; that this deponent went into the council house on the 3d instant, and saw the Indians sitting in council, and upon being informed who this deponent was, (their voice silent:) that this deponent was asked frequently if Hutchins was gone to run the line, which the deponent denied, and was told at the same time that the Indian meant to cut him off and all his men; that the Cherokees and Shawanoes chased Cayasuta, when he went to Mingo town with a speech to the Indians desiring them not to go to war again the Americans, and would have killed him had he not made his escape; and further this deponent saith not.

(Signed) THOMAS + GIRTY, his mark.

Sworn and subscribed before George Wallace.