The story of Sally Wilkens, from the 2nd page of the July 5, 1764 Quebec Gazette. In modern English it reads:

                   Philadelphia, May 24

Saturday last came to this town a girl about 16 years of age, that has been a prisoner among the Indians of the upper Susquehanna some years past. She relates that they were concerned about Capt. Bull, not knowing what was become of him and his party, and fearing they were killed. They had not, it seems, heard of that party’s being surprised and made prisoners of Sir Williams Indians. She says, that there are a great number of Indians in the town she was at, and many white prisoners. That when they heard of the massacre of the Indians at Lancaster, they were extremely enraged, the Squaws screaming all night, and tearing their hair, and the warriors promising them revenge. That they began to be very cross to the prisoners, on which she, and two others, a young man and a woman, that were brother and sister, projected their escape. And having, for their sustenance on the way, stolen from the Indians some of their green powder; they left them about three weeks since, running all night, and hiding themselves in the day; and that when they came to the foot of the hills, the young man and woman left her, to go towards the German flats, and she came forward hither. She says her name is Sally Wilkens, and she had been taken from a place called Guiney in Northampton County, about 20 miles above the wind gap. That she had a brother who was taken with her, but soon got away, and she has not since heard of him. The green powder, she says, is composed of Indian meal, some dried roots and herbs, and a good deal of salt. That a spoonful of it a day is sufficient for one person, to keep them from hunger; But it makes them thirsty, and ocassions their drinking a great deal of water. This powder, with some roots, found in the woods, she says has been all her subsistence on the journey, and yet she looks pretty well.