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The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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In York County on April 5, three Indians were sighted near Thomas Farnison's home at Marsh Creek Head, leading to the discovery of Robert Buck killed and scalped, a horse slain, and several people missing including Farnison's family and William Mann's wife and children. Indians were also seen near Shippensburgh, causing widespread alarm.
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Extract of a Letter from York County, the 5th Inst. Three Indians were seen this Day by two Boys near Thomas Farnison's, at the Head of Marsh Creek; upon which they gave the Alarm, when six Men went to said Farnison's House, and found there one Robert Buck, killed and Scalped; also a Horse killed, that belonged to William Mann, a Soldier at Carlisle whose Wife and Children had just come to live with Farnison.
This Woman, and her three Children, Thomas Farnison, his Wife, and five or six Children, are all missing: the same Day a Person going to Shippensburgh, saw a Number of Indians near that Place, and imagined they designed to attack it.—This has thrown the Country into great Confusion.
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York County
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The 5th Inst.
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robert buck killed and scalped; horse killed; william mann's wife and three children missing; thomas farnison, his wife, and five or six children missing; country in great confusion
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Three Indians seen by two boys near Thomas Farnison's at Head of Marsh Creek; alarm raised; six men found Robert Buck killed and scalped at house; horse belonging to William Mann killed; Mann's wife and children had just moved there; same day, Indians seen near Shippensburgh, feared attack.