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tmllbis ftrcts. Humanity nd jofficc call aloud for this meafure. The roinifter has at Jeogth confcfted, we cannot conquer Ameri ca. To what purpofe then are more torrents of blood to be ftied f The Americana will accept, or they will rejca your pro portions. If tkey are accepted, the war is at an end by conceS on. If they are rejected, the end of the war, eonqueft. has been found d is now acknowledged to be impracticable. The fhedding of the blood of a fingle man for an objea which confuf fedly cannot be obtained, is not ooly enjuftiftable, but highly criminal. Many of the rneafares of oppofition have been at length adopted by roinifters. I hope this the moft important of all, will have the fame fuccefs. An immediate cejation 9 arms was propofed the very flrft day of this fcffioo, by an excellent young nobleman on this fide the houfe (Marqis of Granby.) It will do more than all your emmijjtontrs can without it. Perhaps it may fave Howe from the fate of Burgoyne. It will give time for cooling on both fides, and at leaR (hew that you are relenting towards your brethren, that you are eager fcr that reconciliation, which alone can form the folid happinefs of both countries, ai;d muft be devoutly wiftied by every friend in each to their mutual profperity. It may fave the fragments of this difinemUrd em pire ; for I own I lhall tremble for the fate of Canada, nearl y ioii three' years ago. Nova Scotia, the two Floridas, and the Well India iflands. if the powerful confederacy of the Thirteen United? Colonies continues. Sir, I heartily wifti furcefs to thofe two conciliatory bills, and that we may regain by treaty, what we have lott by tyranny and arms. I could agree to almoft any treaty rather than continue this ruinous war, which1 has coft already above thirty millions Aerling, and the Iofs of 20,000 men. I entirely approve rhe ef fort, although I have my fe2rs, that it is made too late. Sat bt nef fat lift Let the experiment however be tried, and may both Britain and America again form one powerful empire, on the principle of equal liberty, joft, mild, commercial, and t lerant! We lhall then be able to ftand the (hock of all ihe adverfe po ers of the world, again feared and refpecied abroad, and at home a great, united, and happy people. P.OUGHKEEPS.IK, July 20. Since (r lal, many of the dtjl-ejid refugees from the Wyoming fettle -mint, on the Sufuebannab tubo ejeaped the general majacre of the inhabitants. bve fiafjed this way, from wbom nve have col leded the following acconntt VMS PREVIOUS to the narrative, it may be necefiary to inform fome of our readers, that this fettkment was made by the people of Conaeaicut on a grant of Lands purchaf d by che in habitants of that colony, under fanftion cf government, of the Indian proprietors, and that thefe lands falling within the limits of the PenfyJvaoia claim, a difpute concerning the right has an fcn between the two governments, and proceeded to "! as of hoftility. When it was at a height that threatened the diftu.b ance of the othervemments, Congrefs interpofed. by whofe re cemmendation and authority the decifion of the difpute was Ap pended till that with Great Britain, equally interefting to every American ftate, was concluded when there might be more lei -fare to attend to the other, and confider the juftice of each claim. On this footing, the difpute has lain dormant for two or three years ; the inhabitants lived happily, and the fettlement encreaf ed, confiftiag of eight townlhips, viz Lackewana, Kxerer, Kingfton, Wilkelhorputrh, Plymouth, Nanticoak, Huntington, and Salem, each containing five miles fquare. The fix lower townfhip were pretty full of inhabitants; the two upper ones had comparatively but few, thinly fcattered. The lands are ex ceeding good, beautifully fituated along both fides of the Sufque aannah, navigable for fia bctttmed bloats, and produced ira Bienfe quantities of grainof all forts, roots, fruits, hemp, flax, &c. and ftock of all kinds in abundance. The fettlement had lately fuppl;ed the continental army with 3000 bufhels of grain, and the ground war. loaded with the raoft promifiug crops of every kind. 1 he fettlement included upwards ofathouland families, which had furntlhsd our army with a thoufand foldiers, beftdes the garrifons of four forts, in the town Chips of Lackewaha, Exeter, Kingftoo, and Wilkefborough. r rt. srtKof fort- cvas oarrifoned bv Howards of four hnn r wr w - .- p - m - - li f the militia, the nrinciDal oinceri m -.. were colonels Deniioo and Zebulon Butler. 1 s it uj : r 11 n . 1 he tones ana inuians iiau given iodic mnuruance to thefe l.m.nt laft vear. before general riarkemer s batt la at n;j y . ' . , . creek, near fort btanwix, and our lkirmilhes loon after with n. a A. -J a. A n LaV v,UM .... 1 r- ed. and the the tories concealed themfelves among oar dife. mm Umcnfc Thf. nponlp hfrp remained undi'rnrK. A- the relt oi tne year. vu...r rU fimp flnr i n h a hi t an t a havino difcovered thstmt... 1- . -ft W 1 . of thrfe villainous tories, who had ltirred up the Indians, a4 been with them in fighting againft us, were within the fettle- r . S 1 rt. ..1 ; J It ments, 27 01 tnem were, in jannuary-iau, witcn up ana lecared. Of thefe, 18 were fent to Conneaicut ; the reft, after being de. rained fame time, and examined, were, for want of f efficient 1. vidence, fet at liberty. They immediately joined the enemy, and became aAive in raiting in the Indians a fpint of hoftihty s gainft us. This difpufition foon after began to appear in the be. haviour of the tories and Indians, which gave the people appre. hen (ions of danger, and occauoned lome preparatroas Jorde. 4 a " The people had frequent intimation that the Indians had fome mifchievous design againft them, but their fears were fomewhat aba ed by the feeming foiicitude of the Indians to preferve peace. They fent down, at different times, feveral parties with declara mns of their peaceable difpofitron towards irs, and to reqoeft the like on our part towards them. They were always difmifled with afforaaces that there was no defign to to difturb them. But one of thofe Indiana getting drunk, faid, he and the other meffengers wre onl tent to amuie the people in tne lettiement, out tnat tns )dans intended, as foon as they were in order, to attack them; O-i this rhe Indian men were confined,- and the women fent back with a flag. In March, appearances became more alarming, and the fcattered fam.lies fettJed for 30 miles up the river were cojleaed, and brought into the more populous parts. In April and May, ftrolling parties of indians and tories, about 30, and in a company, made frequent fncurfions into the fettlement, rob bing and plundering the inhabitants ofprovifion, grain, and live ftck. In June, feveral perfuns being at work on a farm, from which the tory inhabitants had gone to the enemy, were attack ed, and one man of them killed. Soon after, a woman (wife of one of the 27 tories before mentioned) was killed, with her five children, by a party of thefe tories and Indians, who plundered the houle of every thing they could take away, and deftroyed the reft. On the lft inftant (July) the whole body of the enemy, con fiftinp, it is fuppofed, of near 1600 (about 300 of whom were thought to be indians, under their owtn chiefs, the reft tories painted like them, except their officers, who were dreffed like re gulars) the whole under the command of colonel John Buder (a Connetticut tory, and coufin to colonel Zebulon Butler, the fe cond in command in the fettlement) came down near the upper fort, but concealed the greateft part of their number. Mere they had a fkirmith with the inhabitants, who took and killed two In dians, and Joft ten of their own men, three of whom they after wards found killed, fcalped, and mangled in the moft inhuman manner. rv July 2. The enemy appeared cn the mountains back of King fton, where the women and children then fled into the fort.- Moft of the garrifon of Exeter fort were tories, who treacheroufly gave it up to the enemy. The fame night, after a little refin ance, they took Lackewana fort, killed fquire Jenkins and his family, with' feveral others, in a barbarous manner, and made prifoners of moft of the women and children ; a fmall number only efcaped. July 3. This rtorning Col. Zebulon Butler, leaving a fmall number to. guard the fort (WilkeiDDrough) crofTed the river with about 400 men, and marched into Iongton fort. The enemy fent in a flag, demanding a furrender of the fort in two hour?. Col. Butler anfwered, he fhould not furrender, but was ready to receive them. They fent in a fecond flag, demanding an imme diate furrender, otherwife that the fort fhould be ftormed, plun
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