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340 The certificate of JOHN ANDERSON, a merchant in Frederickſburg, Virginia; communicated by ''Mann Page, Eſq. of Mansfield, near Frederickſburg,'' who, in the letter accompanying it, ſays, “Mr. John Anderſon has for many yeare paſt been ſettled ''in Frederickſburg, in the mercantile line. I have'' ''known him in proſperous and adverſe ſituations. He'' has always ſhown the greateſt degree of equanimity, ''his honeſty and veracity are unimpeachable. Theſe'' things can be atteſted by all the reſpectable part of the town, and neighborhood of Frederickſburg.”

Mr. John Anderſon, a merchant in Frederickſburg, ſays, that in the year 1774, being a trader in the Indian country, he was at Pittſburgh to which place he had a cargo brought up the river in a boat navigated by a Delaware Indian and a white man. 1 That on their return down the river, with a cargo, belonging to Meſſrs. Butler, Michael Creſap fired on the boat, and killed the Indian, 3 after which two men of the name of Gatewood and others of the name of Tumbleſtone, who lived on the oppoſite ſide of the river from the Indians, with whom they were on the moſt friendly terms, invited a party of them to come over and drink with them; and that, when the Indians were drunk, they murdered them to the number of ſix, among whom was Logan's mother. 4 That five other Indians uneaſy at the