Testimony of Godfrey Shew

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TRYON COUNTY:

Personally appeared before me, Jellis Fonda, one of his Majesty' s Justices of the Peace for said County, Abraham D˙ Quackenboss, and being duly sworn on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God, deposeth and saith:

That on the 24th day of March instant, he, the deponent, being at his dwelling-house at Caughnawaga, in company with David, a Mohawk Indian, he, said David, asked the deponent whether Adonijah Stansbury was a Whig or a Tory. The deponent said, He is a Whig. "Aye," says David, "you are all glad now, but in less than two months' time you will be sorry." The said David further informed the deponent, that Abraham, one of the Mohawk chiefs, was gone to a treaty at Onondaga; and that he, the said Abraham, gave orders to them, the said Mohawks, to stay at home, and not to go a hunting until he returned; and the said David said they should know what to do when he returned.

ABRAHAM QUACKENBOSS.

Caughnawaga, 25th March, 1776: Sworn before me,

JELLIS FONDA, Justice.