“ The Pennsylvanians little imagined at first that the Indians, guilty of such outrages and violence were some of those who pretended to be in the English interest; which, alas! proved to be too true to many of us; for, like the French in Europe, without regard to faith or treaties, they suddenly break out into furious, rapid outrages and devastations, but soon retire precipitately having no stores nor provisions but what they meet with in their incursions. ”

“ Shocking to human nature were the barbarities daily committed by the savages, and are not to be paralleled in all the volumes of history! scarce did a day pass but some unhappy family or other fell victims to savage cruelty. ”

“ The men have no beards, to prevent which they use certain instruments and tricks as soon it begins to grow. The hair of their heads is managed differently; some pluck out and destroy all, except a lock hanging from the crown of the head, which they interweave with wampum and feathers of various colours. The women wear it very long, twisted down their backs with beads, feathers, and wampum, and on their heads most of them wear little coronets of brass or coppar; round their middle they wear a blanket instead of a petticoat. The females are very chaste and constant to their husbands ”

“ And those French who were sent to dispossess us in that part of the world, being indefatigable in their duty, and continually contriving and using all manner of ways and means to win the Indians to their interest, many of whom had been too negligent, and sometimes, I may say, cruelly treated by those who pretend to be their protectors and friends, found it no very difficult matter to get over to their interest many who belonged to those nations in enmity with us, especially as the rewards they gave them were so great, they paying for every scalp of an English person £15 sterling. ”

“ Their gun, tomahawk, scalping-knife, powder and shot, they carry with them in time of war. They in war deeline open engagements; bush fighting or skulking is their discipline; they are brave when engaged, having great fortitude in enduring tortures and are the most implaeably vindietive people upon the earth ”

“ My father-in-law, in order to establish us in the world in an easy, if not affluent manner, made me a deed of gift of a tract of land, that lay, unhappily for me, as it has since proved, on the frontiers of the province of Pennsylvania, near the forks of Delaware, in Berks County, containing about 200 acres; 30 of which were well cleared, and fit for immediate use, whereon was a good house and barn. ”

“ On the 28th Jacob Miller, with his wife and six of his family, together with every thing on his plantation underwent the same fate. The 30th, the house, mill, barn, twenty head of eattle, two teams of horses, and every thing belonging to the unhappy George Folke, met with the like treatment-himself, wife, and all his miserable family, consisting of nine in number, being inhumanly scalped, then cut in pieees and given to the swine, which devoured them. I shall give another instance of the numberless and unheard of barbarities they related of the savages, and proceed to their own tragical end. ”

“ Being now my own master, having money in my pocket, and all other necessaries, I employed myself in jobbing about the country, working for any one that would employ me, for near seven years, when, thinking I had money sufficient to allow some better way of life, I resolved to settle, but thought one step necessary thereto was to be married ”

“ Thinking the young man belonging to the unhappy family would be of some service to them in carrying part of their plunder, they spared his life, and loaded him and myself with what they had here got, and again marched to the Black Hills, where they stowed their goods as before. ”

“ Having saved what they thought proper from the flames, they gave the old man, feeble, weak, and in the miserable condition he then was, as well as myself, burdens to carry, and loading themselves likewise with bread and meat, pursued their journey on towards the Great Swamp where, being arrived, they lay for eight or nine days, sometimes diverting themselves in exercising the most atrocious and barbarous cruelties on their unhappy vietim, the old man ”

“ They are very proud, and take great delight in wearing trinkets, such as silver plates, round their wrists and neeks, with several strings of wampum, whieh is made of eotton, interwoven with pebbles, eoekleshells, &c. down to their breasts, and from their ears and noses they have rings or beads whieh hand dangling an inch or two. ”

“ This party who now joined us, had it not found, in their power to begin their wickedness as soon as those who visited my habitation, the first of their tragedies being on the 25th day of October, 1754, when John Lewis, with his wife and three small ehildren, fell sacrifices to their eruelty, and were miserably sealped and murdered, his house, barn, and every thing he possessed being burnt and destroyed. ”

“ Their mogganes are made of deer-skins, and the best sort have them bound round the edges with little beads and ribbands. On their legs they wear pieees of blue cloth for stockings, some like our soldiers' splatter-dashes. They reaeh higher than their knees, but not lower than their ancles. They esteem them easy to run in. ”