The Virginia Gazette

Williamsburg, Dec. 24. By a Letter from Col: James Millikin, in North-Carolina, dated at Roanoke, December the 10th, we have the following Account, That he received a Letter from Mr. Thomas Brown, of the Catawbas, the chief Trader there, informing him, That on the 9th of October last, Three Indians came to the House of one William Syms, on Pine tree Creek, and ( in his Absence) killed his Wife, another Woman, Three Children, and a Negro Man; and then set Fire to the House. 'Tis suppos'd they carried a White Girl away with them alive, who liv'd at the House, but can't be found. They were followed the next Morning by Five White Men, upon the Track, who found they had stopp'd in the Night, near a Place called Mars-Bluff, on Pedee River, where they had shared the Plunder, and left the bloody Cloaths of the murdered People. The Indians bent their Way Northward, which makes it believ'd they were Tuskaroras. Mr. Brown wrote the above Account to Col. Millikin, at the Request of the Governor of South-Carolina, desiring him to use his Endeavours to apprehend these horrid Murderers.

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