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DELAWARE COUNTY. 273 the road from the north side above the house^ and pass through the pasture lot where the cattle were^ and enter the woods near where the cattle were pasturing. I told the sheriff that he ought to command every spectator to assist in arresting them, and he did so. In the course of fifteen or twenty minutes I observed another company of about as many more pass into the woods, in the same direction. I observed nothing further until about twelve o'clock, when I discovered a party of forty or fifty come from the woods on the east side of the pasture lot, and pass, in single file, to the woods on the south side, where the others had congregated. At the same time I observed another company of fourteen coming off the side hill on the north side of the road, and were pass- ing in the direction of the others above mentioned ; I went up the road about thirty or forty rods east of the house, and came within three or four rods of them as they crossed the road, and passed a few rods into the pasture lot, where they halted at the command of the chief, and looking at me as I stood in the road, cried ^ tory, tory.^ The chief then motioned with his hand in the direction of the others, who were passing through the lot, crying ^ tory, tory.^ The only remark I made to them, was to ask them what they wanted of me. — The four- teen immediately turned, and coming towards me, recrossed the road nearly in the same place. As they passed me I ob- served that several of them had their faces but imperfectly disguised, and I pursued them ten or fifteen rods on the north side of the road, endeavoring to ascertain who they were ; they passed up the hill, and I left them and returned again in the road. ^'In about one-half or three-quarters of an hour, we observed the Indians coming out of the road, on the south side of the pasture lot, and marching in single file, they passed up near the bars about fifteen or twenty rods east of the house, on the southerly side of the road, when they formed in sections of