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Testimony of Godfrey Shew

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The Testimony of Captain HENRY HANSON.

TRYON COUNTY:

Personally appeared before me, Jellis Fonda, Esq˙, one of his Majesty' s Justices of the Quorum for said County, Captain Henry Hanson, of the Mohawk' s country, and being duly sworn on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God, deposeth and saith:

That on or about the 10th day of March instant, one of the Mohawk Indians (Hoonce Dowick by name) asked

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the deponent if he was not afraid. The deponent said, For what? The said David said, as soon as the leaves come out, the foreign Indians would come down and cut off the Mohawk River. And the deponent further saith: That he heard a Mohawk squaw say, she wished all the Indians were as true to the country as she and her son, and then there would be no disturbance. Further saith not.

HENDRICK HANSEN.

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

JELLIS FONDA, Justice.

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