women, children, and effects, and make the best defence they could and at the same time told them to write what I had said to our brother Warraghiyagey (meaning Sir William Johnsonf) but they paid not the least regard to what I told them and laughed at me, slapping their hands on their Upon which I returned home and sent one of our buttocks, saying they did not value the Enemy ;

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people to the Lake, (meaning the Oneida Lake) to find out whether the Enemy were coming or not after

he had staid there two days, the Enemy arrived at the Carrying-Place, and sent word to the

and told them what they were going to do but charged them not to let us at the Uper Castle know anything of their design. As soon as the man I sent Castle at the Lake, that they were there ;

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Lyman C. Draper, Esq,, of Phila., has had the politeness to communicate this " Narrative."

* A Stockaded Work round the church, and a block-house, with a ditch, and a parapet pallisadoed, thrown up by Sir William Johnson a year ago, upon an alarm then given, t They never sent this intelligence to Sir William.

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there heard this, he came on to us with the account that night ; and as soon as we received it we sent

a belt of Wampum to confirm the truth thereof, to the Flats, which came here the day before the Enemy made their attack ; but the people would not give credit to the account even then, or they