im so low that
death seemed likely to withdraw him from their power, he was taken
out and attended to somewhat mended, and then again, before he had
recovered abilities to walk, was returned to his dungeon, in which a
hole was cut seven inches square only, for the admission of air, and
the same load of irons again put on him; that appearing again to be
in imminent danger of being lost to them, he was a second time taken
from his dungeon, in which he had lain from January to June, with
the intermission before mentioned of a few weeks only; That
Governour Hamilton gave standing rewards for scalps, but offered
none for prisoners, which induced the Indians, after making their
captives carry their baggage into the neighborhood of the fort,
there to put them to death, and carry in their scalps to the
Governour, who welcomed their return and success by a discharge of
cannon; that when a prisoner brought [a]live, and destined to death
by the Indians, the fire already kindled, and himself bound to the
stake, was dexterously withdrawn and secreted from them by the
humanity of a fellow prisoner; a large reward was offered for the
discovery of the victim, which having tempted a servant to betray
his concealment, the present prisoner Dejean being sent with a party
of soldiers, surrounded the house, took and threw into jail the
unhappy victim, and his deliverer, where the former soon expired
under the perpetual assurances of Dejean, that he was to be again
restored into the hands of the savages, and the latter when enlarged
was bitterly and illiberally reprimanded and threatened by Governour
Hamilton.

It appears to them that the prisoner Dejean, was on all occasions
the willing and cordial instrument of Governour Hamilton, acting
both as judge and keeper of the jail, and instigating and urging him
by malicious insinuations and untruths, to increase rather than
relax his severities, heightening the cruelty of his orders by the
manner of executing them; offering at one time a reward to one
prisoner to be the hangman of another, threatening his life on
refusal, and taking from his prisoners the little property their
opportunities enabled them to acquire.

It appears that the prisoner, Lamothe, was a Captain of the
volunteer scalping parties of Indians and whites wh[o] went out from
time to time, under general orders to spare neither men, women, nor
children.