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Description: Settlers Remove From Conococheague to Baltimore To Avoid The Fury of the Indians.
Date: May 20 1756Newspaper published in: Boston, MA
Annapolis, in Maryland, April 29.
Last Saturday there came to Baltimore-Town, from Conococheague, at the foot of the North Mountain, 41 persons, viz. 6 men, 5 women, and 30 children, with some of their cattle, to avoid the fury of the enemy, and settle at Mr. LAWSON's Works. One of the men had just removed his family to a hill within sight of his house, when the Indians came and burnt his houses, destroy'd his plantation, and kill'd his cattle. He says that Thomas and Daniel CRESAP (sons of Col. CRESAP) went out about three weeks since, with sixty people, dressed and painted like Indians, to kill the women and children in the Indian towns, and scalp them while their warriors are committing the like destruction on our frontiers.