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HISTORY OF NORTHAMPTON COUNTT. 10,J
two days for your Ilunor's answer, by which time I
hope this express will return.
. We
labor under much diOicuIty on account of these
Indians wanting their guns repaired, and to have some
powder and leaU, v/hicli we cannot ])y any measure do,
unless we have year Honor's express conniiand for ii.
If it be your pleasure it shall be done or not, please to
signify it, as year Honor's conniiand shall be strictly
obeyed. I beg ieavc to observe Kolapecka, Paxinosa's
son, seems very desirous to carry, according lo the Indian
way of speakiiit?, some words from your Honor to hii
father.
I am, with all due respect,
'i ^ Your Honor's most obedient
Humble servant,
TIMO. HORSEFIELI).^
; (0^A paper enclosr I in the foregoing letter.
Ihtldchem, July (i, 1756.
Last night, in the dark of the evening, arrived a
Bethlehem, fom- Indians fiom Diahoga, widi a convoy
from fort Allen, and a letter from Newcastle, which i.enclosed.
As Newcastle desired tliat kmdness might
be shown them, they \^ere cheerfully received anil en-
tertained.
This morning they were visited, and told at the sann
time that a messenger should ho sent to the Governor,
and therefore they should let us know what they had ti'say
to the Governor. Kolapecha, Packsinosa's son, n
Shawanese, answered lo this effect :—He did not couk
from Diahoga with an intent to go to Bethlehem, hUt
was out a hunting, his family being scarce of provision::.
That Shekashano, Mekikachpe and VV'enimah, all
Shawanese, now of Diaiioga, and formerly of Wyomink,
in liis coni])any—ihutnct being sent by tlie chiefs, he had
no message to the Governor, nor could he tell us any
news. So miiel;,. however, he knew— ihat mne natioM':;
•i^ v. Uec, 0. 179.