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| + | Extract - from the deposition of Micheal Cupps and Nancy Smith, taken Eliha Lyman Esquire, one of the Justices of the peace for the County of Greene, dates 23d, April 1793. | ||
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| + | "Micheal Cupps was near the Oconee river on Monday, the 22d instant, and heard a Gun fired, and saw about thirty Indians firing upon and Mafsacuring [massacring] Richard Thresher, two children and a negro Wench; at the same time the wide of he deceased with one infant, ran and leaped into the river, the Indians firing upon her as she fled - the woman was found alive scalped, wounded in both her thighs, her right breast with balls, and stabbed in her left breast with a knife, her left arm cut nearly off, as is supposed with a Tomohawk, of which wounds she died in about twenty four hours, the Infant was found drowned, without any marks of violence upon it. Nancy Smith deposits the number of Indians was in her opinion nearly one hundred | ||