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Croghan's Journals
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lish who might perhaps be concerned in the Mischief lately done in the County of Northampton.[1]

No more than Seven Indians being as yet come to Carlisle Mr. Croghan was asked the Reason of it; he said that the Indians were mostly gone an hunting, but he expected as many more at least would come in a day or two.

Mr. Weiser was then sent for and it was taken into Consideration what should be said to the Indians.
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  1. This refencnce is to the massacre of the Moravian settlers at Gnadenhütten, in November, 1755.—Ed.