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NYM(G.756.005
12 Jan 1756:23 (179)
Philadelphia, January 8. Extract of a letter from Capt.
William Hayes, dated at Allen's Town, January 3, and
addressed to his honour the governor, and the commissioners.
I am sorry to inform you, by these lines, of the bad news of
our defeat at Gnadenhutten. . . [1/2 column]
He told me, that he had lain under a rock in the river, from
about one of the clock (after crossing it) till it was dark,
and when he came away, he saw the Indians dancing and
howling about the fire, and computed that there was a body
of them, to the number of 250 at least, and that he had
fought them till they set fire to the houses to the windward
of them, and so filled the church with smoke, that he could
stay no longer . . .
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