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Shawnees were running from Carolina to Pennsylvania
Source: Early History of the Creek Indians and Their Neighbors #121
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In June, 1707, Gov. John Evans of Pennsylvania visited the Shawnee Indians on the Susquehanna and states that, while he was at their village— "several of the Shawnee Indians from the southward came to settle here, and were admitted to so do by Opessah, with the governor's consent; at the same time an Indian from a Shawnee town near Carolina came in, and gave an account that 450 of the Flat Head (Catawba) Indians had besieged them, and that in all probability the same was taken. Bezallion (a Trader, who acted as interpreter) informed the Governor that the Shawnees of Carolina, he was told, had killed several Christians; whereupon the government of that province had raised the said Flat Head Indians, and joined some Christians to them, besieged, and have taken, as it is thought, the said Shawnee town."1 It is probable that the numbers of those Carolina Shawnee who had migrated to Pennsylvania were constantly swollen. (Swanton)
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