Number went to Oneida

to
give notice, and request a gene-
ral Council next Day:

This Evening received an
Account of the fourth Murder
committed amongst these peo-
ple within these few months
past; all of which are sup-
posed to have been occasioned
by the Use of Spirituous Li-
quors; One was of the Tuscoro-
ra’s

in the 11th. mo. last, One of
the Stockbridge’s not long af-
ter, one of the Oneida’s in the
6th. mo last; and the lastother of
the Cayuga’s a few Days since;
Three of these Cases in the
very neighbourhood where